> > > I've studied over 12 human languages, and found *none* of them > > > "straightforward and coherent" in grammer. Karkar-Yuri is pretty good. 1,300 odd speakers. No known relationships to any other language (!) It helps to evolve the language with no written rules at all (indeed, no writing of any sort) first, and then create an alphabet, grammar and all the accoutrements to match what you find. RM ____________________________________________________ Karkar Yuri http://tinyurl.com/z4g1 = http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm? http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=YUJ http://www.peoplegroups.org/SearchResults.aspx?PID=Karkar-yuri&SelTbl=Language -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads