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Conlangery #59: Loan Words

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Nouns in Language

Nouns typically have a fairly straightforward morphology, I don't know of any language that regularly inflex nouns with infixes. If you don't have a word for it, it's not going to change and become more like a word you already have. Persian has a lot of verbs that are these compound verbs where you have a noun and some verbal element. Yeah, and I think it's probably more likely to occur for that to occur than for wholesale borrowing of a verb to occur.

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