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Conlangery #26: “Emphasis”

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Polarity in Japanese

He has complicated aspect in addition to tense which is interesting. And of course I love that he has what one two three four five six seven moods. This is the thing that drives me bonkers about this language is there's so much about it that's sort of interesting and complicated and fairly naturalistic but then we get a sequence of prefixes all have the same. There are situations where the vowels change sort of anticipatory what we say of forward vowel harmony but the same thing happens in voice active voice ends at a passive voice end at a reflexive ends in you.

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