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Re: Conlang List Ethnologue

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Sunday, September 9, 2001, 23:25
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. =================================== 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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