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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Jonathana Tegire</b>
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<FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2><I>Airana </I>and<I> Emai!<BR>
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For an experiment, I started creating a language in which one sentence was one word. If this sounds like Speedtalk, it isn't. I got the idea from Vihal. In Vihal, the verb and subject are combined in one word, hyphenated when written in English characters. In this language, the subject( <I>al </I>), the object ( <I>ki</I> ), and the verb (<I> ram </I>) are combined in one word, unhyphenated. <BR>
You may ask how you would be able to pick it apart. You simply look for the dividers, <I>al</I>, <I>ki</I>, and <I>ram</I>, the words for the parts. Each divider words heads its part. So it is just like saying <I>Subject</I>I<I>Verb</I>see<I>Object</I>you ("I see you") in English, except that the pattern for this language is SOV. <BR>
Other parts of speech would doubtless have their own divider words and be added in a similar way. This is just an experiment, I may or may not use it further. <BR>
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Here is a list of parts:<BR>
<B>al<BR>
</B>I - ip<BR>
you - shi you (plural) - shis<BR>
he - fa she - fei it - fal<BR>
we - ips<BR>
they - fas<BR>
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man - pir<BR>
woman - pier<BR>
child - pikir<BR>
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<B>ki</B><BR>
I - eip<BR>
you - sha you (plural) - shas<BR>
he - fo she - foi it - fol<BR>
we - epas<BR>
they - feis<BR>
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man - par<BR>
woman - peir<BR>
child - parkir<BR>
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<B>ram<BR>
</B>to love - kar<BR>
to be - (leave verb off)<BR>
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alipkisharamkar - I love you<BR>
alipkiparram - I (am) (a) man<BR>
alipskipeirramkar - We love (the) woman.<BR>
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Looking back on this, all words start the same old way. I see two alternatives.<BR>
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(a) - have the divider words (al, ki, ram, etc.) come <I>after</I> their part, instead of before. This would make our sentence words above become <I>ipalshakarram, ipalparkiram,</I> and<I> ipsalpeirkikarram</I>.<BR>
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(b) - have the initial divider word (al) be optional. <BR>
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This was just an idea, so suggestions and comments are welcome.<BR>
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<I>Hemonea an hamunea hanarate hinaranafir, han arenasin!<BR>
</I> -J. Tegire</FONT>
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<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>"Word" can mean several things: 1) an orthographic entity written
without internal spaces; 2) a phonological entity, used e.g. to determine
stress; 3) a correctly formed morphological entity; 4) a lexical entry,
something with a distinct meaning.
<p>To explain (3) a bit more: a morphological word can (in the right context)
be uttered alone. E.g. you can say "slowly" (perhaps as an answer to the
question "How did it move?"), but not "-ly". And morphological words
generally can't be freely interrupted by additional material. E.g.
you can say "round baseball", but not "baseroundball".
<p>Given all that, you should consider which sense of 'word' you're using.
To put it another way, does your scheme differ from the simple rule of
not writing spaces between the words?
<p>You might be interested in looking at Inuit and other polysynthetic
languages, in which a sentence is often a word (in senses 1 to 3).
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