Re: Isolating natlangs?
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 14, 2005, 7:21 |
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On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 04:56 , Rob Haden wrote:
> If you want a European example of an isolating language, look into
> Afrikaans. IIRC,
> it's perfectly isolating.
Largely isolating, like English & Mandarin, but also like those two, not
perfectly isolating. Afrikaans nouns do have plural suffixes & there are
some verbal inflexions.
Ray
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