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Conlangery SHORTS #03: Expanding your Lexemes

Conlangery Podcast

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The Prefixes of the Apache Languages

There are prefixes for subjects and objects, which occur in funny different ways depending on what kind of subject or object they are. And then at the very end is the verb stem. The meaning you have to take all of the parts together. You do not know what is being said until the verb is done. One of my favorite prefixes is yah, which occurs on a single verb. So we have no idea what it really means. It's used with the verb to speak. There's all sorts of fun there.

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