Re: Conlang List Ethnologue

Dan Seriff wrote:

> The Conlang List Ethnologue is now up to 53 entries! Let's get some more!
>
> http://members.tripod.com/microtonal/language/conlang/ethnologue.html
Somehow, when I originally did mine, I didn't send it off.  Here's another go
at it, using the Ethnologue's new format:

 PHALERAN [PHA] (Thomas Wier)
 Population:  ca. 5,832,000 first language speakers, and 45,570,000 second-language
    speakers according to the latest procuratorial census (1203 P.C.); 82% live in
    K'eþnaia.  Also:  Loriom, Effeisa, Trans-Alideru, Tharri.
 Dialects:  Phaler-Aidu, KweiNoitli, Phalitlai, K'oi-Phala, Önopales,
    Sikastra, Nessubim, Græksi, Twolyeo, T'erai, Orunna, Loreian, Effeisan, Tharrinan.
 Classification:  Anglophone (?) > Tlaspian > Upsilon Andromedan Tlaspi > Phalera
    Tlaspian > Northern > Plains Phaleran > T'erai-Twolyeo > Twolyeo.
 Comments:  64% lexical similarity with Acropedial Phaleran, 48% with Tic'|onga, 37%
    with Walsi, and 36% P'orræs.  Language of official imperial administration, public
    education, and, along with C'|ali, international political, intellectual and religious
discourse.
 Not inherently intelligible with Acropedial Phaleran, Tic|'oNga, Walsi, or
P'orræs. Dictionary.

    Grammar:  SOV; head-marking; postpositions; genitive marking on head nouns; adjectival
    relative verbs, numerals before head nouns; question particle final; case endings distinguish
    grammatical relations; ergative morphology and syntax; active, passive, antipassive, middle;
    causative; two morphological modes:  realis and irrealis; progressive and perfective aspects,
    prospective tense;  onset consonant and vowel clusters, no coda clusters; five series of stops:
    voiced,  voiceless, aspirate, voiceless ejective, and (marginally) aspirate ejective; nontonal;
 grammaticalization of social class structure through honorific clitics and
lexical verbs; gender

    marking not grammaticalized, but expressed through context or adverbs; no articles: word
 order distinguishes new and old information. Tropical, deciduous forest,
taiga. Light industry,

    agriculturalists, apiculture, craftsmen, artisans. Relations with other colonists in system
minimal;
    reduced to occasional radio transmissions. Ancestor worship; Twolyeo ruler cult; monotheists;
    secular.

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

"Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi
  entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn;
autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê
  erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos

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