In a message dated 7/22/2002 10:14:42 AM Central Daylight Time, wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > Choctaw is a noun-adjective-article language. > > That would be the significance of the location of word order. Also, the > verb > always comes at the end of the sentence. > > George Ann > > Well, George Ann, if I understand what you are saying correctly, if Hopia occurs at the beginning of a name then it designates what that person was, such as if Hopia occurred at the beginning it means either "leader" or "bone picker" but if it occurs at the end it designates what a person did or how the person did what he did? I'm still a bit confused because I take article and noun to mean the same thing, that is that neither is a verb. Or are you saying that if Hopia occurs at the end then it is the verb form of "leader" of "bone picker" and means "leads" or "picks bones"? Or am I just confused right now. John Craven New Orleans