Apparently there's a North-east Caucasian language called Archi, where verbs can have as many as some 1.5 million forms :O How on earth is this possible? How could any human being learn this, even as a child? It's mind-boggling to think of even memorising all the different forms, let alone learning how to use them correctly.
Archi-1.5 million verbs forms???
<<How could any human being learn this, even as a child? It's mind-boggling to think of even memorising all the different forms, let alone learning how to use them correctly. >>
I wonder if these verb forms tend to be systematic and regular, or are there millions (or billions) of unpredictable/irregular inflections, with lots of ablaut, suppletion, and tone/pitch/stress changes?
I wonder if these verb forms tend to be systematic and regular, or are there millions (or billions) of unpredictable/irregular inflections, with lots of ablaut, suppletion, and tone/pitch/stress changes?
Dumb cunts, it's just that there are an large number of combinations.
There are 3,628,800 different ways to arrange the letters ABCDEFGHIJ. But you don't have to learn all of three million combinations. You just learn the 10 letters and make any combination you want.
Same idea with languages. A few parts, a lot of combinations of the parts.
There are 3,628,800 different ways to arrange the letters ABCDEFGHIJ. But you don't have to learn all of three million combinations. You just learn the 10 letters and make any combination you want.
Same idea with languages. A few parts, a lot of combinations of the parts.