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Liogab11

Re: toki ni li meli lili pi toki pona

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I would like to add that there does not seem to be a word for demonstratives(this, that, these, those)--- On Fri, 29/5/09, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@gmail.com> wrote:From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@gmail.com>Subject: Re: [tokipona] toki ni li meli lili pi toki ponaTo: tokipona@yahoogroups.comDate: Friday, 29 May, 2009, 11:18 PM On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:03 PM, lordcaml <lordcaml@yahoo. com> wrote:> tenpo suno tu la mi kama lukin e toki "Pon Wen." ona li kama tan toki pona.taso ona li jo e nimi mute. mi pilin e ni: ona li pona tawa sina. mi toki e tokipona kin. taso toki ante ni li pona kin.>> http://www.freewebs .com/bonwen/I'm curious about your motivation for the particularway you've reduced Toki Pona's phoneme inventory.It looks like you've dropped /s/, /u/, and /i/. If I weregoing to reduce TP's phoneme inventory evenfurther, I would not drop the only fricative, but oneof the phonemes in a category where TP hastwo or three already: /t/ or /m/ or /w/ perhaps.And for maximal contrast of a three-vowel system,I'd make the prototypical values /i a u/ rather than/e a o/.Your website doesn't as far as I can tell say anythingabout Bon Wen phonotactics; I infer from the wordforms I see used that it's basically the same asToki Pona's, right?The grammar isn't thoroughly described yet, butI like what I see so far and would like to see moreof it eventually.--Jim Henryhttp://www.pobox. com/~jimhenry/ Get your preferred Email name!Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com.http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
daraffa

Re: toki ni li meli lili pi toki pona

Post by daraffa »

'ni' means this or that.See: http://tokipona.org/nimi.htmlDave--- In tokipona@yahoogroups.com, Liogab11 <liogab11@...> wrote:>> I would like to add that there does not seem to be a word for demonstratives(this, that, these, those)>> --- On Fri, 29/5/09, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:>> From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>> Subject: Re: [tokipona] toki ni li meli lili pi toki pona> To: tokipona@yahoogroups.com> Date: Friday, 29 May, 2009, 11:18 PM>>
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