Kazunari Hirano wrote:
Hi Greg,
Japanese has no definate article?
No.
Wow. Languages are very interesting.
Yes, they are!
Swedish doesn't have a definate article either,
but that the word ending changes.
Is that similar to Japanese?
No.
Some linguists categorized world languages into four language types:
agglutinative languages (Korean, Turkish, Japanese ...), incorporating
languages (Inuit, Basque, Aynu ...), isolated languages (Chinese,
Thai, Vietnamese ...) and inflectional language (English, French,
German ...)
Klingon has all features of agglutinative, incorporating and isolated
languages except inflectional language.
:)
khirano
Heh! My wife just the "Klingon-English Dictonary" today going through
boxes of books in the "storage" porch. Coincidence?
Now all I have to do is figure out what "agglutinative" means. Plus the
other terms in that context. Offhand, I'd call English "incorporating"
because it incorporates new words so easily. I'm making them up all the
time! ;-)
-Greg
