Re: New to the List and New Languages

Joseph Fatula wrote:
> Silwen Nunáth - A mostly inflectional language, with three grammatical
> "genders" (though based on divisions of the world, not masc/fem/neut)
No need to put gender in quotation marks.  Plenty of languages use
gender systems other than masc/fem/neut, such as animate/inaniamte or
human/non-human or human/non-human animate/inanimate.

> a case division rather like ergative/absolutive, and a total of 12 cases.
What do you mean by "rather like"?  What are the cases?  My conlang also
uses ergative/absolutive, and a total of 19 cases (altho, even by
Classical times, some of them were falling out of use)

> Torum Morgénón - A highly agglutinative lanugage, where 7-9 endings may be
> placed on a single noun.  There are 14 different vowels, divided into 7
> tense and 7 lax, including 2 front-rounded vowels of each.  A set of 4 noun
> inflections can make known some of the speaker's views concerning the noun.
> Verbs are inflected for subject, object, and a number of mood and voice
> categories.
Interesting!  What're the vowels?  What are these noun inflections that
"make known some of the speaker's views"?

> Thanyar - Most words in Thanyar consist of two or three consonants, and in
> the case of nouns and adjectives, a root vowel.  Vowel alteration and
> reduplication make up the bulk of the grammatical changes.
Like Semitic languages?

> with many naturally inanimate objects considered animate for cultural
> reasons.
Uatakassi has a special "pseudo-animate" gender which includes things
like human institutions, languages, precious metals, projectile weapons
(like arrows and spears), plants, insects, etc, as well as an inanimate
gender.  It's not always clear why a noun is pseudo-animate or
inanimate.

> Pahalor - Not the name of it, but a word from it, as I haven't yet made up a
> name.  This is another non-human language, not quite as odd as Teuthurev,
> but still different.  The intent of the one doing the action and who knows
> about it is reflected by various verb and noun endings.
Interesting.  How so?

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