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« Reply #25 on: September 22, 2009, 09:22:32 AM »
The link to the list of Tamarese utterances is broken, but is it the case that they have concrete nouns, verbs and prepositions, but maybe no words for abstract concepts?  

Of course, that would have made the "we know the grammar, but none of the vocabulary" line go flat.
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