in etronan, both verbs and nouns are inflected. there are no traditional adjectives in formal speech, bu they can occcur in the colloquial; one can determine register by their use.
VERBS can be modified by aspect, time, desires, object and volitions. the aspects include neutral, perfective, progressive, past-habitual, and beginning/initiating (an action). volitions include “want”, “guess to want” and “purposefully”. "accidentalness" is indicated lexically.
The Unleasher wrote:
If Estonian were to seriously lose 11 of the 14 cases and the o sound differentiations, it'd be quite an easy language.
lot of languages find themselves being stripped of grammatical complexity once they become very widely spoken. english had a more developed case system before it took over the planet.
i think an argument can be made as to whether there is a degree of objectivity in "superiority" of languages, whatever that may entail. it's not something i read about often, though it sounds a bit intriguing.
I didn't understand anything you said and I'm curious. Maybe you could explain one of your points in more plain language?