Re: Conlang Typology Survey

Gonna answer for three conlangs: Rhean, my oldest (living) conlang and the
biggest, and also Omurax and Tolborese, which need a lot more work. Any
other 'langs of mine are mere sketches at this point.

Garrett Jones wrote:

>1. morphological type
Rhean: a/b
Omurax: b. fusional/inflecting
Tolborese: a. agglutinative

>2. Word order
Rhean: (mostly) a. SOV, g. free
Omurax: tense particle followed by arguments (there are no verbs)
Tolborese: AVE (A = Absolutive, E = Ergative), or EAV, but AV are always
together.

>3. adposition/noun order
Rhean: b. preposition - noun
Omurax: local cases; no prepositions
Tolborese: prefixed prepositions, so I suppose b.

>4. adjective/noun order
Rhean: a. adj - noun
Omurax: b. noun - adj
Tolborese: b. noun - adj

>5. genitive/noun order
Rhean: a. genitive - noun
Omurax: b. noun - genitive
Tolborese: b. noun - genitive (with "noun" taking a construct suffix rather
than genitive taking any inflection)

>6. relative clause/noun order
Rhean: both a and b possible.
Omurax: b. noun - rel. clause
Tolborese: b. noun - rel. clause

>7. main verb/aux verb order
Rhean: a. main verb - aux verb (occasional exceptions)
Omurax: clause is turned into nominal argument of "auxiliary" tense
particle; aux. comes first
Tolborese: a. main verb - aux verb

>8. adverb/verb order
Rhean: a. adv - verb
Omurax: n/a
Tolborese: b. verb - adv

>9. compounding type
Rhean: a. head-last compounding
Omurax: a. head-last compounding
Tolborese: little compounding, but that is b. head-first compounding

>10. case type
Rhean: a. nominative/accusative
Omurax: b. ergative/absolutive
Tolborese: b. ergative/absolutive

>11. tense system
Rhean: a. time (past/present/future)
Omurax: a/b
Tolborese: as yet undeveloped

>12. script
Rhean: a. (modified) Latin
Omurax: c. con-script -- see it at http://suzsoiz.free.fr/omurax.jpg
Tolborese: c. con-script (modified Omurax; sorry, no pic yet)

>13. number of genders/noun classes
Rhean: five or six declension classes
Omurax: one, final sound determines a few variations
Tolborese: eleven Bantu-esque noun classes; nineteen if you count plurals
as seperate "classes"

>14. number of cases
Rhean: five
Omurax: twelve
Tolborese: n/a

>15. number of phonemes
All of my phonologies are very uninspired. It's probably the feature I
spend the least time on.
Rhean: 30 - 33
Omurax: 22 (I think)
Tolborese: 24

>16. lexicon size
Rhean: just broke 2500!
Omurax: roughly 100
Tolborese: sub-100

>so, how do your conlangs look?
Rhean: fit and healthy, but a bit hyperactive
Omurax: neglected and undernourished
Tolborese: young and small, but growing quickly

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