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Conlangery #103: Mailbag 2

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How Many Verbs Does a Language Have?

William mentioned a language with only 12 verbs, and I was very curious about it. What language is that? Is there any information or grammar on it? So, I misreported how many verbs the language has by us in order of magnitude. There are not 12 verbs, there are about 120, which is still pretty darn small. This was some pop-wing-any language. It's called Cobon. One of the special verbs is to butcher a cassowary. Can you put that into the document,. then I'm sure Sure.

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