Re: A wacky language
| From: | Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 4, 2004, 8:53 |
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Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote:
>I'm interested in creating a wacky conlang, one with a crazy phonology,
morphology, and syntax. Any features I should think about - that are crazy,
unexplainable, or just weird?
Interrogative is marked by raising the eyebrows when the verb is spoken.
Almost all nouns in the nominative case (or Monster Raving Loony
equivalent) begin with a vowel, as do the matching adjectives. However,
adding a glottal stop to the beginning of any such word makes
it "unspeakably" obscene.
Vowel harmony distinguishes inhaled and exhaled vowels.
An adposition agrees in gender and number with its noun, but these are not
marked on the noun itself: gave OBJ.TRI.FEM bone to.TRI.MASC dog "(I) gave
three bones to three dogs" (genders arbitrary)
Affirmative is VSO, negative is SOV.
M