Re: Conlang Typology Survey

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.>>

Ok. I'm back from the business trip, 27 digests behind, and here are my answers:

Language name: Kumanzha / Kuman Tyly

1. morphological type
a. agglutinative

2. Word order
a. SOV
-- occasionally becomes VSO if the verb is in imperative

3. adposition/noun order
a. noun - *post*position

4. adjective/noun order
a. adj - noun

5. genitive/noun order
a. genitive - noun

6. relative clause/noun order
-- Well, if you mean attributive rel. clause, it precedes, but other types of
clauses may behave differently depending on the form of the verb. In general,
participles and "participial adverbs" are prefered instead of rel. clauses.

7. main verb/aux verb order
a. main verb - aux verb

8. adverb/verb order
a. adv - verb

9. compounding type
a. head-last compounding
-- compounding is a rather rare type of word formation in K.

10. case type
a. nominative/accusative

11. tense system
a. time (past/present/future)
aorist/imperfect/perfect/habitual present/actual present/future
(=suppositional), all including certain aspectual and mood overtones

12. script
b. other existing natlang script -- Cyrillic

13. number of genders/noun classes
None.

14. number of cases - 7.
Nom., Gen. (=Poss.), Dat., Acc., Instr. (=Comitative), Loc., Abl.

16. lexicon size - about 100 roots for now

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