tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 04 01:38:06 2001
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Hixkaryana and Klingon
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:03:12 -0500
>To: [email protected]
>From: Nicolau Rodrigues <[email protected]>
>Subject: Hixkaryana and Klingon
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>Recently I read a book that discuss another unusual trait of Klingon:
>comparatives and superlatives. Here you have the reference and an example of
>comparison in Hixkaryana:
>kaw-ohra naha Waraka, kaw nah Kaywere
>tall-not he's Waraka, tall he's Kaywere
>Kaywere is taller than Waraka
That pattern's fairly widespread in the Americas though, isn't it? And
Okrand was an Amerindianist.
Nick Nicholas, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. [email protected]
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