Re: Conlang Typology Survey

Alright, lets see if I can describe the basics of how slaaleg ihkreen
works (and figure out what half these words mean ;).

Garrett Jones wrote:
> I'm curious about the distribution of the types of conlangs on this list.
> So, a survey. Maybe it will generate some on-topic discussions. Answer it
> for your respective conlangs:
>
> multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that makes
> sense for your conlang.
>
> 1. morphological type
> a. agglutinative
> b. fusional/inflecting
> c. polysynthetic
> d. isolating
b. Inflecting, except for a few exceptions where an adposition can be
agglutinative.

> 2. Word order
> a. SOV
> b. SVO
> c. VSO
> d. VOS
> e. OVS
> f. OSV
> g. free
strictly b.

>
> 3. adposition/noun order
> a. noun - preposition
> b. preposition - noun
>
> 4. adjective/noun order
> a. adj - noun
> b. noun - adj
>
3.a 4.b
Adpositions are a specific type of adjective, and all adjectives
follow the noun.

> 5. genitive/noun order
> a. genitive - noun
> b. noun - genitive
b. Also grouped in with adjectives.

> 6. relative clause/noun order
> a. rel. clause - noun
> b. noun - rel. clause
b. These are all adpositional phrases.

> 7. main verb/aux verb order
> a. main verb - aux verb
> b. aux verb - main verb
a. What is an auxilary verb? Cant seem to find that one anywhere.
Anyways, if it exists in slaaleg ikreen, it would be as an adjective or
adpositional.

> 8. adverb/verb order
> a. adv - verb
> b. verb - adv
b. There are no adverbs, but adjectives can modify verbs as well.

> 9. compounding type
> a. head-last compounding
> b. head-first compounding
c? Compounding is done through use of adjectives.

> 10. case type
> a. nominative/accusative
> b. ergative/absolutive
> c. split ergative
> d. other
d. nominative/accusative except that the verb supplies the case.

> 11. tense system
> a. time (past/present/future)
> b. aspect
> c. realis/irrealis
a.

> 12. script
> a. latin
> b. other existing natlang script
> c. con-script
c. A cursive syllabary. ( There are only 75 base sylables in the language )

> and some free answer questions:
>
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
Six: Thing, Person, Place, Proper Thing, Proper Person, Proper Place

> 14. number of cases
Two: nominative, accusative. Although being part of the verb rather than
the noun, I usually term them 'active' (Bob punches) and 'passive' (Bob
is being punched)

> 15. number of phonemes
18 consonants and 10 vowels, if I understand this correctly
(kr, z, fl, v, th, k, f, n, d, t, g, tr, s, sl, l, ft, st, sh)

> 16. lexicon size
~200

>
> that's all the ones i could come up with quickly. so, how do your conlangs
> look?
> --
> Garrett Jones
> http://www.alkaline.org
>

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