[conlang] Digest Number 1395

>Message: 25
>    Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:40:22 -0800
>    From: Garrett Jones <alkaline@...>
>Subject: proposed conlang database
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>What i would like:
>1. To know the interest in actually having this done, the need for it, how
>many people would refuse to put their conlangs in the database
I'm willing, but I don't know how good the fit is.
>2. Specific suggestions on the data to be collected on each conlang (listed
>below)
My conlang Lahabic is that world's Latin, and as such, more written and read
than spoken. And what about languages that the creators declare are extinct
reconstructions?
Furthermore, I am a student of the ancient languages Latin, Greek, and
Sanskrit, and therefore am not bothered by my lack of fluency in
pronunciation (vocabulary, however, does matter to me). Just because I have
trouble pronouncing a language shouldn't rule it out as a source or model.
>3. Suggestions on how the whole database system could work
>
1. Basic information:
language name:
Lahabic
previous language names:
None
author's name:
Marcus Miles
world location of author:
United States
webpage url:
http://www.habazaleidhabramez.homestead.com/index.html
language creation date:
original version, 1995
date added to database:
date db entry last modified:
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2. Current language status:
current development status:
usable within cultural context
estimated fluent speakers:
on Earth, none, due to unpredictable allophonic changes
'there', maybe 10,000 second language speakers
ADDED:estimated fluent readers:
on Earth, one
'there', maybe 30,000 second language readers
estimated familiar speakers:
on Earth, none
'there', maybe 40,000 second language speakers
ADDED:estimated familiar readers:
on Earth, one
'there', maybe 120,000 second language readers
3. The language in use:
writing system:
yes; two varieties, monumental hand and merchant's hand
example written sentence:
dya'mamon ru'khe lagya'ldeuliyippha'lkhe deloutetyadadrakhe
mino'ddegwainato'r bhwete'ma'dharaddhakwa thale'drakwa.
The having-gone-into-love beautiful-boy gave cold-water to the
drink-desiring girl.
The boy in love gave cold water to the thirsty girl.
pictorial sample of script: not available
audio sample: not available (see estimated fluent speakers)

4. Language classification:
basic description:

language family:
Indo-European-like
vocabulary source:
a priori, categorical
syntactic system:
VSO with topic fronting in interrogatives; cases: nominative, genitive,
dative (dative/benefactive/reflexive), locative (locative/instrumental),
accusative; aspects: aorist, imperfective, perfective; tenses: past,
present, future
morphological system:
between agglutinative and declinational
design motivation:
fantasy, with historical precedents, cognates, and descendants

>Here are some more details on the different parts of the language
>classification:
>
>A. Vocabulary Source
What about languages that are fictional derivatives of other fictional
languages?
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