"Correlatives"
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An article discussing the "correlatives" (or lack thereof) in the language of the wood elves
This public article was written by [Deactivated User] on 24 Aug 2016, 19:41.
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1. "Correlatives"
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I think most conlangers have at some point come across the Esperanto correlatives chart and thought one of two things. Either "I can do better than this" or "This is completely ridiculous for a naturalistic language". I belong to the second group (although I mean no offence to anyone of the first group) so I decided to cut down on them, even further than English has. I should explain that by correlatives I mean the different interrogative, demonstrative, indefinite, universal and negative pronouns.Wood-elven, or Sóman Lényish as it is known by its speakers, does not have too many correlatives. Instead, it uses different words together in order to mean the different things for which correlatives are used. These segments usually consist of a word along with a noun. Thus, you don't say "who" you say sesh iyoh what person, or instead of everyone you say suza iyoh every person ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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