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SpareSymbol · Joined:Fri 14 Aug 2009 7:31 am Posts:7

How is the inflection in Volapuk?

Declan · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 6:51 am Posts:122

SpareSymbol wrote:

How is the inflection in Volapuk?

A bit too regular though?

ILuvEire · **Posted:** Sat 12 Sep 2009 7:55 pm

It's quite inflected for a European language, but nothing compared to Navajo or Tzez.

Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

Anders wrote:

Talib wrote:

Tsez has over 120 cases (!).

Hmm..the wikipedia says 64...

I guess when a language has that many cases, it depends how they are classified.

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Some languages have very many cases; for example, Finnish has fifteen according to the traditional understanding (or up to 30 depending on the interpretation)[1] (see Finnish language noun cases), Hungarian has eighteen and Tsez can even be analyzed as having 126 cases.

formiko · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:31 am Posts:404 Location: Angola

ILuvEire wrote:

It's quite inflected for a European language, but nothing compared to Navajo or Tzez.

Tlingit is still harder. People use Navajo for the example of difficulty because it is the most commonly spoken.

ILuvEire · **Posted:** Sun 13 Sep 2009 4:58 am

formiko wrote:

ILuvEire wrote:

It's quite inflected for a European language, but nothing compared to Navajo or Tzez.

Tlingit is still harder. People use Navajo for the example of difficulty because it is the most commonly spoken.

Yeah, I wasn't saying anything about Tlingit, I've read a bit about Navajo and Tzez, I didn't want to make an untrue statement about Tlingit.

formiko · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:31 am Posts:404 Location: Angola

ILuvEire wrote:

formiko wrote:

ILuvEire wrote:

It's quite inflected for a European language, but nothing compared to Navajo or Tzez.

Tlingit is still harder. People use Navajo for the example of difficulty because it is the most commonly spoken.

Yeah, I wasn't saying anything about Tlingit, I've read a bit about Navajo and Tzez, I didn't want to make an untrue statement about Tlingit.

Navajo is still no walk in the park though