Re: VMs: [LONG] Voynich & semiotics (early notes)

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

8/09/2003 1:50:12 AM, Luis Vélez <legal1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>David Kahn has noted the phenomenon of constant prefix repetition while 
>suffixes undergo variations as being a typical trait of artificial 
>languages such as Dalgarno's or that of Bishop Wilkins

It is also typical of all Bantu languages, and quite a few
Australian languages. One example (Swahili): kiboko kikubwa
kimoja, viboko vikubwa viwili ("one big hippopotamus, two
big hippopotamuses"). If you prefer: wazee warefu wawili
("two tall old men")




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