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Ah, at last smbody showed signs of activity here. Very good, Pavel! I'll have a more attentive look at the project later; we are approaching autumn Festivals: Rosh ha-Shanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot - thus I'm so short of time! But what on earth is `Mek group? I've heard nothing about it. How are the vowel restrictions motivated? They are rather non-Semitic. Semitic languages are *characterized* by diversity of vocalization! With much respects, -- Yitzik Katav Pavel Adamek: > Gedeh is a Semitic language. > It is a member of the `Mek language group, > so it received its shared characteristics: > - the agglutinative type > - the restriction that "e" appears only in roots > and the other vowels only in grammatical affixes. > - at least 4 genders: > common, masculine, feminine, inanimate