Re: Conlang Typology Survey
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 13:14 |
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--- Garrett Jones skrzypszy:
> 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:
Okay:
W = Wenedyk
H = Hattic
A = Askaic
I have two other conlangs: Megza (Hattic and Askaic's baby sister, with 660
words, and Vozgian, that I am currently redoing from the beginning. I won't
include them here.
> multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that makes
> sense for your conlang.
>
> 1. morphological type
WHA: b. fusional/inflecting
> 2. Word order
W: g. free, but SVO by default.
H: c. VSO
A: b. SVO
> 3. adposition/noun order
WHA: b. preposition - noun
> 4. adjective/noun order
W: both a/b, depending on the context
H: a. adj - noun
A: b. noun - adj
> 5. genitive/noun order
W: b. noun - genitive (rarely a.)
H: a. genitive - noun
A: b. noun - genitive
> 6. relative clause/noun order
WHA: b. noun - rel. clause
> 7. main verb/aux verb order
WHA: > b. aux verb - main verb
> 8. adverb/verb order
* I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, but if I understand you correctly:
WHA: b. verb - adv
> 9. compounding type
WHA: a. head-last compounding
> 10. case type
WHA: a. nominative/accusative
> 11. tense system
W: a. time and b. aspect
HA: a. time (past/present/future)
> 12. script
W: a. latin
HA: a. and c. con-script
> 13. number of genders/noun classes
WHA: 3 (M, F, N)
> 14. number of cases
W: 4 (NGDA)
HA: 6 (NGDAIL)
> 15. number of phonemes
W: 33 (8 vowels, 25 consonants)
H: 35 (9 vowels, 3 diphthongs, 23 consonants)
A: 34 (6 vowels, 8 diphthongs, 20 consonants)
> 16. lexicon size
W: 1624 (21 May 2003, 14:10)
H: 1250
A: 1292
How boring, all this! Have I created the same language thrice? ;))
Jan
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