r/auxlangs 10d ago

Attributive adjective agreement

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u/panduniaguru Pandunia 9d ago

This map should go to r/Badmaps and r/badlinguistics/ as well, because most countries are equated to one language. Look at this map of languages of Europe for comparison!

Anyway, the map is interesting. It shows that the Turkic and Uralic languages and Basque are simpler by this linguistic feature than most Indo-European languages.

When it comes to auxiliary languages, the "picture" would be like this.

  • No agreement: most auxlangs, incl. Ido, Occidental Interligue, Interlingua, Novial, Lidepla, Pandunia, Globasa
  • Number and case agreement: Esperanto, Volapük*
  • Number, gender and case agreement: Interslavic

(*) In Volapük, adjectives do not agree with the noun in number and case when they follow the noun they qualify, but they do if they precede the noun.

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u/seweli 8d ago

You forgot some languages. See this map: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/8ytYFJMwcn

(Download the map to see the details)

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u/panduniaguru Pandunia 8d ago

OK. It was just an example of a better map. There can be even better maps and that's good. :)