> Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> ttabtasisa:
> > Dennis Paul Himes wrote:
> >> The Seezzitonian alphabet is now up on the web. See
> >>
http://home.cshore.com/himes/umuto/phono.htm and
> >>
http://home.cshore.com/himes/umuto/lang.htm.
> >
> > You described S. as "highly inflected" - after reading
> > your outline of the grammar, I suspect you of rather
> > understating the case!
> >
> > What's your motivation for so much inflection,
>
> Partly just because I thought it would be cool, but also as a contrast
> to Gladiltian. Gladilatian has a strict syntax, and the grammatical
> relationships between words is determined by their order. Seezzitonian is
> somewhat the opposite of this.
>
> > and did you have a natural language analogue for this
> > vast array of cases?
>
> Finnish is known to have a large number of cases, but I don't know it at
> all, so it wasn't really an inspiration.
> The natural language which I do know some and which has similarities to
> Seezzitonian, both linguistic and cultural, is Latin. The similarities
> include:
> - highly inflected
> - alphabetic writing system
> - language of an empire extensive in time and space
> - ancestor of languages spoken in that space in later times
> - language of scholarship long after it ceased to be anyone's L1
> Differences from Latin, however, include:
> - defaults to SVO
> - no separate part of speech for adjectives
> - more types of agreement (e.g. D.O. with verb tense and mood)
> - less difference between literary and vulgar forms
> - no real equivalent to Greek, either as source of borrowing or language of
> empire
>
> ============================================================================
>
> Dennis Paul Himes <> himes@cshore.com
>
http://home.cshore.com/himes/dennis.htm
> Seezzitonian page:
http://home.cshore.com/himes/umuto/lang.htm
>
> Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
> brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as
> the air." - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99
>