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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Tuomo Sipola</b>
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Hello!
<p>I just wonder that it might be fun to have somekind of online course for beginning almeanists. I know that there is a Practical course in Verdurian but it's quite boring to study alone.
<p>I can say "et nomai" and "kiel läde" but nothing more. Just wondered if there are any other bored souls out there.
<p>The one thing that annoys me the most is that Verdurian ressembles too much European languages. But that's something that I can't change :)
<p>And could there be a small possibility to have a shortened (beginner's?) grammar in Cadhinor? I don't like Shm's writing style since I don't master Verdurian.
<p>-Tuomo Sipola (would that be Tomao Sakarei Sipola in Verdurian? (My father's Sakari (which seems to be a feminine noun (though I still treted it as masculine))))
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Well, people are always asking me about new things-- grammars of Tzhuro,
atlases of Uytai-- so I tend not to want to spend time creating alternative
presentations of existing material.
<p>On the other hand, I have no objection if one of you does so! Philip,
for instance, has created conjugation aids and other interesting materials
for Almean linguistics. So, perhaps someone could write a beginner's
course in Cadhinor, or organize an online study group. I'll be glad
to check over the examples or provide missing words.
<p>Verdurian does resemble existing languages; this is intentional... it's
what we might call the viewpoint language for Almea; I wanted it to look
half-familiar, as against other languages and cultures that are more
exotic. Otherwise, everything is equally strange and the reader can
feel lost (im my opinion).
<p>Sakari should produce the patronymic Sakarë. If you understandably
want to treat it as masculine, I'd make it Sacariy or Sacary (genitive Sacarii in both cases). (I use <b>c</b>
because this is the velar stop, as opposed to uvular <b>k</b>.)
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