Re: Conlang Typology Survey

Note: I recently joined the list.  Full introduction later, if I find time.
But I thought answering the survey might serve as a partial introduction
N=natece atechana
R=Rihana-ye varoha
 1. morphological type:
N: b? fusional/inflecting (not highly inflected)
R: a/b (agglutinative but gives the effect of inflections cf.Korean))
2. Word Order:
N: b SVO
R: a SOV (not always consistent)
3. adposition/noun order
N:b preposition/noun
R: a noun/preposition
4. adjective/noun order
N: and R a: adj/noun
5. genitive/noun order
N: b noun-genitive
R::a genitive-noun
6. relative clause/noun order
N:b noun-rel.clause
R: supposed to be a rel.clause-noun but inconsistent in practice
7. main verb/aux. verb order
N: b aux-main
R: a main-aux (also not entirely consistent); most distinctions done by
auxiliaries are done by a set of suffixes
8. adverb/verb order
N and R: a adv-verb
9. compounding type
N and R: a: head-last
10. case type:
N and R d. other: none indicated other than by position (a. nom/acc)
(formal court R can use relational suffixes to indicate nom.acc but this is
very rare even in formal court R.)
11. tense system:
N: a. time (weakly developed)
R:  a. time
12. Script:
N and R: chiefly latin; both langs supposedly have con-scripts, but I rarely
use them
13. number of genders/noun classes
N: none (there are words for man, woman, etc. but no classes of words)
R: 5 (adult male, adult female, unisex child, unisex animal,unisex thing)
14. N :not distinguished except by position
      R: not distinguished except by position or suffix (if one takes the
suffixes as
           cases rather than relationals,  there is a genitive and perhaps a
dative as well as
          a root form used for nom. and acc.  but I do not think of them that
way; see also
          10 for formal court R)
15. N: officially 7, 5 consonants (n,h, t, l, c(c pronounced as k), 2 vowels
(a, e).  Unofficially, rather more; perhaps 17? :13?consonants (add nh, th,
ch, tl,hl, cl)and 3 or 4 vowels (add ae, ee).
     R: 29 (23 consonants, 6 vowels) The consonants are divided into the 18
original consonants and 5 added consonants; the distinction is historical,not
linguistic.
16. lexicon size: estimated: N: over 1000 R: over 600 (The lexicons are in
card files
and not complete, especially for R; I hope for more exact figures later)

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