> Remi Villatel wrote:
> >Sally Caves wrote:
> >>Vyko, Remi. Interesting system. The famously verbless conlang is
> >>Sylvia Sotomayor's Kelen~. You might want to get in touch with
> >>her; she's back from Nicaragua. :)
> >Her site has been in my bookmarks for a long time. So far, I only
> >know 3 verbless conlangs: Kélen, All-Noun and Shaquelingua. Maybe
> >should we start forming a group? ;-)
>
> <coughs politely> I did post a while back in this same thread about
> my own humble T4, which is single-open-class -- allnoun if you like.
> I agree that Ke'len~ and AllNoun are the most prominent examples,
> but there are others. Henrik Theiling's S7 springs to mind, along
> with a language by Nathaniel Lew called Bendeh which I keep
> meaning to investigate but which has striking similarities to T4.
> No doubt there are others around that I haven't discovered yet.
>
> And, yes, I think a comparative study of verbless or allnoun
> conlangs, collaborative or otherwise, would be a wonderful thing to
> try -- it's been at number 1003 on my list of things to do for a few
> years now :)
>
> best,
> Jonathan.
>
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