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The four types of languages:
- Isolating (sapyvlakai)
- Inflecting (vlatikykai)
- Agglutinative (niprafkai)
- Polysynthetic (clajvokai)
la lojban. mo bangu .i xu sapivlakai go'i .i sapyvlakai joi clajvokai
What sort of language is Lojban ? (isolating?) part isolating, part polysynthetic Don't rafsi make it more agglutinative than polysynthetic?
Cases
- Case (tersu'i)
- Nominative (gasnu)
- Accusative (selri'a)
- Doesn't this mean "that which is brought into being" (effected) rather than "that which is acted upon" (affected)? --mi'e braiyn
- Accusative (selri'a)
- Genitive (ponse)
- Dative (terdu'a)
- Instrumental (selpli)
- (another use for instrumental in IE) (selkansa)
- Locative (selzva)
- Prepositional (=locative in Slavic) (seltcita)
- Ablative (tervi'u)
- Vocative (selta'a)
- Ergative (zukte)