There are various patterns languages use to form new words to express either related concepts, or more complex ones. These patterns can include compounding words, such as Handschuhe (hand+shoes) to mean 'gloves', and the use of prefixes and suffixes to mark things like causatives or an agent of something. Such affixes may also occur together … Continue reading Perhaps my most favourite morphological feature
Amharic
A Non-Anglocentric Language Tier System?
1. How many languages do you know ? Okay, lemme define this question. To “know” a language, usually means to have the knowledge to speak, read, write, understand and communicate in a language. So yeah, as of now, I do know quite a bunch of languages to varying standards, like English, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, French, Japanese, […]
The Language Closet 