Re: Conlang Dream

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:41:42 -0800, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...>
wrote:
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>Anyway, that just happened, so I wanted to share.  Anyone else
>remember any of their conlang dreams?
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>-David
Actually, I had a conlang "daydream" just yesterday!  For some reason, the
following sentences flashed in my head, along with the English translation:

'Ti parash na?'  'Iya.'
'Don't you think (so)?'  'Yes.'

Then I figured out a gloss:
ti 'you (sg.)'
parash 'think (prs. act. ind.)'
na 'no, not'
iya 'yes'

Finally, I worked out a different question syntax:

'Ti na parash?'  'Nayum.'
'You don't think (so)?'  'No, indeed.'

There's an ending -yum which has an emphatic meaning.  I think
the "emphatic affirmative" would be _iyam_, though (not *iyayum).

I've also been thinking of a past-tense for the verb, either _parshu_ or
_parshi_.  This gives two more conclusions to the language: it doesn't
inflect for person or number, and it does not tolerate word-final
consonant clusters (nor most initial ones, I'd say).

Whatcha think?

- Rob

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