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--- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@...> wrote: > Great, fascinating idea! > I am mesmerized with the logic of the inner structure of Armenian too. > I like personal artlangs very much, and still am searching for one for > myself. > More comments later. Thank you, I'm looking forward to that! One thing I'm trying to finalize is the noun declension: All noun classes and gender distinctions have been leveled, as in dialects of Cappadocian Greek. For the genitive, Cappadocian Greek has generalized the declension of neuter nouns in -i to all nouns. Furthermore, the genitive has become agglutinative, resulting in anTropos being declined in the genitive singular anTroposiú; the plural is also agglutinative so genitive plural is anTroposiúiá, where -iá is the nominative plural of neuters in -i (again, generalized to all nouns and agglutinated). [Disclaimer: there are different dialects of Cappadocian Greek, and noun declension can be a little stickier than this, but for my purposes, I'm following the scheme used in Central Cappadocian, which is as above] I'm tempted to follow this exact scheme for use in Hunanika, except using the modern Armenian agglutinated plural rather than the Greek neuter. Thus, in Hunanika, the word anTropos might be declined thusly: Direct anTropos anTropos-ner Oblique anTropos-ya anTropos-ya-ner Does this seem a good idea? The almost perfect parallel between Cappadocian Greek and my idea for an Armenian-Greek mixed language makes me feel like I have a winner. My other idea (less appealing to me for some reason) was to generalize Armenian Genitive-Dative ending in -i for all nouns: Direct anTropos anTropos-ner Oblique anTropos-i anTropos-i-ner What do others think? Cheers, Eamon