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Re: conlang classification and productivity

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg.rhiemeier@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 13, 2001, 23:34
Well, my projects so far under the Legratec(TM) rating with an
additional P category for phonology and S for script:

Quendian family:
   Proto-Quendian    L1 P4 S0 G1 T0 C0  total  6
     Nur-ellen       L2 P4 S4 G3 T1 C2  total 16
     Caledonian      L0 P1 S1 G0 T0 C0  total  2
     Iverinic        L0 P1 S1 G0 T0 C0  total  2
     Macaronesian    L0 P2 S1 G1 T0 C1  total  5

Miscellaneous alternative history languages (mostly Ill Bethisad stuff):
   Germanech         L2 P4 S4 G3 T0 C1  total 14
     Bascitan        L1 P2 S4 G2 T0 C0  total  9
     Dechumazech     L1 P2 S4 G2 T0 C0  total  9
   Modern Vandalic   L1 P1 S1 G1 T0 C1  total  5

Serindian family (entirely LT):
   Serindian         L1 P1 S4 G1 T0 C2  total  9
     Ardenorian      L1 P1 S4 G1 T0 C3  total 10
     Jagarathan      L0 P0 S1 G0 T0 C3  total  4

Other stuff:
   Pictish           L0 P3 S0 G1 T0 C0  total  4
   9-phoneme IAL     L1 P4 S5 G1 T0 C0  total 11
   High Fay          L0 P2 S0 G1 T0 C1  total  4
   Trollish          L0 P1 S0 G0 T0 C1  total  2
   Toyish            L0 P0 S0 G0 T0 C1  total  1
   Morifairin        L1 P2 S0 G1 T1 C3  total  8
   Maltarian         L1 P2 S0 G1 T0 C2  total  6
   Drow (LT)         L1 P1 S0 G0 T1 C0  total  2
   2 alphabets (LT)  L0 P0 S3 G0 T0 C0  total  3

Wow!  Quite a lot of projects!  Most of them, however, are little more
than just a few strokes of a draft of a sketch, or rather faint concepts
of such strokes.

(LT) stands for "lost treasure", i.e. an old, dead project of which
little or no material survives.  The "2 alphabets" entry relates to two
conscripts I recently rediscovered, but of which I have not the faintest
idea for which languages I designed them.  They seem, however, to be
related to each other.
The "9-phoneme IAL" is a yet unnamed not very serious attempt at an
auxlang.

I realize that the category "S" (script) raises problems with languages
intended to be scriptless, a condition which holds, amongs the conlangs
listed here, for Proto-Quendian and Trollish, possibly also Toyish.

Jörg.

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