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MarcoP · (This post was last modified: 30-03-2018, 12:55 PM by MarcoP.)

(30-03-2018, 12:21 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Regarding Marco's suggestion that daiin is a candidate for "and" - I disagree. According to Job's tool, there are eleven folios ending with daiin, and I can't imagine a functional block of text ending with "and", unless the language has some weird positional rule for placing "and" after the words that it connects.

Thank you, Anton!
The Romany taj/thaj seems to be infix, so your observation excludes its identity with the Voynichese 'daiin'. It remains an example of a reduplicating function word.

As Emma wrote You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:

Quote:Some languages use a clitic to express 'and'. Arabic, Hebrew, even Latin do this.

Her reference is to the Latin -que, which indeed appears "after the words that it connects" - I have never seen it written as a separate word, so the relevance of this example is limited in this context.

I am not aware of languages that have a word-end conjunction together with reduplication, but my linguistic knowledge is very limited.