P = Palu f’Dule (nonhuman)
B = Bes Dis’z (nonhuman)
N = Nenshar (nonhuman)
L = Laafaah (nonhuman)
S = Shato (human)
>1. morphological type
>a. agglutinative
>b. fusional/inflecting
>c. polysynthetic
>d. isolating
P: a & b
B: a
N: a
L: a & b
S: b & d
>2. Word order
>a. SOV
>b. SVO
>c. VSO
>d. VOS
>e. OVS
>f. OSV
>g. free
P: a
B: b
N: f & g
L: b
S: c
>3. adposition/noun order
>a. noun - preposition
>b. preposition – noun
P: b
B: a
N: a
L: b
S: b
>4. adjective/noun order
>a. adj - noun
>b. noun - adj
P: a & b
B: a
N: b
L: a
S: b
>5. genitive/noun order
>a. genitive - noun
>b. noun - genitive
P: b
B: a
N: b
L: b
S: b
>6. relative clause/noun order
>a. rel. clause - noun
>b. noun - rel. clause
P: a
B: a
N: a
L: b
S: b
>7. main verb/aux verb order
>a. main verb - aux verb
>b. aux verb - main verb
P: a
B: neither
N: a
L: b
S: b
>8. adverb/verb order
>a. adv - verb
>b. verb - adv
P: a
B: a
N: b
L: either
S: b
>9. compounding type
>a. head-last compounding
>b. head-first compounding
P: a
B: a
N: b
L: neither
S: neither
>10. case type
>a. nominative/accusative
>b. ergative/absolutive
>c. split ergative
>d. other
P: a
B: b
N: d
L: d
S: a
>11. tense system
>a. time (past/present/future)
>b. aspect
>c. realis/irrealis
P: a
B: b
N: a
L: b
S: a
>12. script
>a. latin
>b. other existing natlang script
>c. con-script
Default to latin though I’ve played with s script for P.
>13. number of genders/noun classes
P: 3 – living, non-living, sentient
B: 0
N: 2 – animate, inanimate
L: 2 – personal, non-personal
S: 0
>14. number of cases
P: 0 – subject and object indicated by free morephemes
B: 10
N: 8
L: 5
S: 0 – subject, object and oblique indicated by free morephemes
>15. number of phonemes
P: 32
B: 72
N: 34
L: 46
S: 47
>16. lexicon size
P: ~300 words
B: ~300 roots
N: ~200 words
L: ~100 roots
S: ~100 words
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