From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 69689
Date: 2012-05-26
> If we look at the Altaic stems, most of them are mono orFailure to inflect verbs to agree in person in number with
> biconsonantal stems (without the properties o ablaut and
> inflection) and many of those stems are in reality
> onomatopeic ones and perhaps before the IE sprachbund on
> Altaic, the grammar of Altaic was of the creole type (i.e
> without endings=> je manger, tu manger, il manger, nous
> manger, vous manger, ils manger/bi yi [yi=to eat
> and perhaps originally "yi" was a rendition of the soundThat would be typologically unusual, to say the least.
> of a baby wanting food from his mother] yi [perhaps there
> was a single pronoun in Altaic wich is bi=me while all the
> other pronouns were borrowed later from IE,i.e originally
> there was a basic dichotomy me/others]
> yi yi yi yi)Ay-ay-ay!