Re: Fluency Wish-List

Since others are sending in their fluency wish-list, I decided to do so
too.

Natlangs:
1. Chickasaw -- Polysynthetic languages are incredible!  I especially like
the way that Chickasaw arguablly has no pre/post-positions or
conjunctions.  All prepositional functions are expressed on the verb by
applicatives.  Conunctions are all expressed either using verbal
morphology, or actual verbs.  (The word for "and" used to conjoin two
nouns is a verb meaning "to live in sin with".  How cool is that!)

2. German -- I've been working on it for a while.  I can read it pretty
good, but my speaking and listening skills are rather weak.

3. Menominee (or any other Algonquian language) -- Algonquian is just
behind Muskogean for the most intesting language family around, in my
biased opinion.  I especially like the gender system and verbal
inflection.

4. Ainu -- The polysynthetic isolate of Japan.  I've studied Japanese
(not fluent in it, and I'm currently to disgruntled about the
language program I took to be much interested in it anymore), so if I
learned Ainu I could be conversant in all the native languages of Nihon.
There are quite a few features of this language that I find interesting
from a theoretical standpoint, like the interaction between noun
incorporation, verbal agreement, and applicatives.

5. Spanish -- This is brought on by regret more than anything else.  I
lived in Spain for four years, and my Spanish fluency is pathetic.

Conlangs:

1. Quenya -- the model conlang.

2. Telek  -- the conlang I'm currently working on.  (Description of the
phonology soon to appear on the list.)

I'm pretty new to the world of conlanging, so I'm not familiar with much
of what's out there.  Not much interested in Sindarin, and certainly not
Esperanto.

Marcus