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Emilius wrote:No tenses?
Then how can you say that you will do something, or that you did something? How can you make a difference between was, is and will be?
Interesting...
Fra wrote:It is Turkish. Turkish is the easiest for sure. But not necessarily for English speakers, this is for everyone in general. Read this:
A research conducted worldwide has established that Turkish children are the fastest at learning their native language.
The results were released at the International Association for the Study of Child Language’s 10th congress in Berlin, Germany, where it was indicated that Turkish children could speak their native language by the age of 2-3 years in a grammatically correct manner. Linguistics Professor Klann Delius noted that the Turkish language was easy to learn. “Suffixes in Turkish that determine person and tense are regular. Using them is like arranging Lego pieces.” According to the research, it takes 12 years for Arab speaking children, and 4-5 years for German children to acquire the grammatical mastery in their mother tongue. The congress held in Berlin is attended by about 800 linguists from around the world.
To view the full article, visit http://www.lingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=101 or go to http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&hn=22321
Kirk wrote:Emilius wrote:No tenses?
Then how can you say that you will do something, or that you did something? How can you make a difference between was, is and will be?
Interesting...
Just because a language doesn't overtly mark certain things grammatically doesn't mean it can't express those concepts (since all human languages are able to express things like past/future/conditional/counterfactuals) Many of the world's languages don't usually overtly mark tense or plurals, yet those concepts are still readily expressed. Of course those same languages may overtly mark things that Indo European languages don't. For instance, someone whose native language is ergative-absolutive (not present in most IE languages while a few have ergative constructions) might be surprised to find out that (most) IE languages don't mark ergativity yet everyone seems to get along fine .
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