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Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Inflection in Language

In most sentences the verbs take really most of the space in an, I-new sentence. It seems to be common in highly synthetic languages or languages with any inflection for verbs to be highly inflected. So you can have sort of sentence final or utterance final particles that end up like that. That's, that's an interesting thing for that to happen. If they can find the book on the Chinazoon, I dialect, have a look at it because it has a list which is basically 10 times as long of this kind of stuff.

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