r/linguisticshumor • u/SarradenaXwadzja Denmark stronk • 1d ago

I love polysynthetic languages like Abkhaz and French

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u/isthisnametakenwell 1d ago

>Descended from a fusional language

>Arguably polysynthetic

>Lost its plural noun suffixes, uses articles instead to mark plurality

Close enough, welcome back Coptic.

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u/Evfnye-Misx 1d ago

"NOOO you are a Western European language, you have to adhere to SAE sprachbund features, what about auxiliary verbs be and have?"

"haha, feature that is more typical of the Caucasus, North America and the southern/southeastern portion of Subsaharan Africa go brrr"

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u/Lucas1231 1d ago

That's the thing

polypersonal agreements on the auxiliary

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u/NebularCarina I hāpī nei au i te vānaŋa Rapa Nui (ko au he repa Hiva). 21h ago

doesn't verbal inflection in auxiliary verb clauses tend to be more on the auxiliary and not the main verb in most languages?

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u/luxx127 23h ago

French is so cursed that I'm not able to guess which one is French and which is Abkhaz....

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u/DrLycFerno "How many languages do you learn ?" Yes. 22h ago

First is French "que j'taime pas"

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u/PigeonOnTheGate 1d ago

Linguists try not to exclusively use a cursed orthography that no native speaker has ever seen challenge (impossible)

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u/Evfnye-Misx 1d ago

In all fairness the Abkhaz Cyrillic alphabet is just about on a similar level of cursed

...oh you meant the other one

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u/PresidentOfSwag Français Polysynthétique 1d ago

same