Re: Lingua Eurana tradition

"Padraic Brown" wrote:

> I was also perplexed as to why he would introduce ablaut into a
> Romance conlang. Latin had a very little (vult / velle perhaps?), but
> I think it disappeared eventually.
>
> As for the "lacking tradition" in other projects, it might be pointed
> out that Latine Sine Inflexione and Interlingua and undoubtedly other
> conlangs are strongly based on Latin.

> The morphological choices of Eurana are kind of strange, too. Why
> -adu? What does that derive from? It looks like a past participle
> (-atus). Why are superlative adjectives in -ima, and not -issima? Why
> are adverbs morphologically identical to adjectives? Sure, the old
> accusative neuter adjective = adverb, but why in a "logical" language
> where presumably one is seeking to reduce confusion of forms?
>
> Might also be noted that "perfect" is not a tense, but an aspect like
> imperfect. What's a "past future tense"?
>
> Why is the reflexive pronoun "ze" and not "se"?
>
> Why do the numbers switch to Sanskrit for the 10s? Then Greek for six
> and the hundreds?

Many whys. But, every language creator is free to formulate his language
as 
he wishes to do.

Greetings
Klaus


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