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> Don't you think final "mem" is a bit annoying?
> Maybe you can try to denote mimation diacriticly,
> like Arabic tanwiins?
This is an interesting idea,
but we will not find appropriate characters
in iso-8859-8.
Moreover, the mimation is an important marker
denoting that the word is not in status constructus.
For example:
delu bejti kebrum "door of great house"
(Gedeh adjective is not congruent
with preceding substantive
but is always in nominative;
this construction arise
by dropping relative pronoun
from subordinate clause:
"door of house (which is) great")
delu bejtim kebrum "door of house (is) great"
(implicit copula between two nominative groups)
P.A.