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Re: Kosi grammar sketch

From:Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 25, 2004, 14:48
Elliott írta: "....I was especially surprised to see Silindion listed as a
source of some words. I take no offense at you taking my words, and I think
it's pretty cool.

That's a relief. :P Sorry, I should've asked, LOL.

"I searched your vocabulary for cognates and borrowings..and came up with an
impressive list. I think most of them are chance similarities, common
Finno-Ugric borrowing or common Indo-European borrowings. I'd like to know
which of them are directly from Silindion:

Sure. Most are chance resemblances (dom and et- come from Hungarian f'rex.),
altho' these are directly from Silindion: kohim- "lie down", lak- "ride",
nehit- "increase, augment".

BTW do you have a website about Silindion? I'd like to see more about it,
after having read your posts on it. Any comments on Kosi's grammar? I don't
think Kosi is self-seggregating, f'rinstance, but with all the grammatical
categories I wanted to cram into Kosi, I didn't really have a choice... And
I don't want to increase the phonemic inventory, either--I like it how it is
now. :P *shrugs* How about Silindion?

Trebor
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