Re: conlang classification and productivity

Hey.

Thanks for filling me in on the Legratec system, Jörg (should it
be Phlegratecs to take your additional categories of phonology
and script into account? :-).

Tepa, I believe, would have the following rating:

L2 G4 T2 C1 P5

I omit a rating for script, since the Tepa neither read nor
wrote their own (or anyone else's) language. The C rating will
be hard to improve since so little was known about the culture
of the speakers of Tepa (though we can assume they participated
generally in Ancestral Puebloan culture). On the other hand, I
know a great deal about the (con)history of Tepa documentation
:-).

Tepa is currently in the process of some revisions which will
affect grammar primarily and lexicon secondarily. The phonology
is reasonably stable, though in the course of the revisions
there will be some small but far-reaching changes in allophony.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga                          dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu

"The strong craving for a simple formula
has been the undoing of linguists."               - Edward Sapir