Re: Lord's Prayer in Enaselvai

Quoting Jonathan Lipps <conlang@...>:

> Philippe,
>
> Yeah, I think my most blatant Greek rip-off was my verb "aged", from similar
> "ago". I haven't studied any Gold Coast languages, though, so that part must
> just be a coincidence!
>
> Actually, there is only one case marking in Enaselvai, and that is "-to",
> which signifies definiteness, whereas its absence signifies indefiniteness.
> (In fact, since the system is so weak we might not even want to call it a
> case system)
That doesn't sound like anything you'd normally consider a case system.

The suffixed definite articles of Romanian and the Scandinavian languages are
not considered case endings.

                                             Andreas

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