Nik Taylor wrote:
> I think Christophe probably meant "morpheme order".
>
> My conlang is fairly polysynthetic, too. That sentence would translate
> as:
>
> Pikuaablaaba naiskau inikil, katina
> Pi- kuaa- blaa -ba nai- saga -u inikil katina
> Gender7-generic-thing-illative future-speak-I when write
>
> Well, that's not really a good example, since there's nothing to
> incorporate, "say" being an intransitive verb.
>
> Here's a better example:
>
> "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me!"
> Taklankaftipasuv, gualiuv-vil!
> Taklan-kafti-pas -u-v guali-u-v=fil
> Glass -eat -able-I-hab hurt -I-hab=not
Akliqasðelama, /'ilûfîkeni.
A-kliqa-sðe-la-ma, /'ilû-fî-ke-ni.
cabable-glass-eat-3SOI-1SSA damage-not-1SOA-3SSA
> Many languages lack any "formal" name, being called by their speakers
> simply "speech" or "our tongue".
I see.
>
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