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:

Language:  Kash
1. morphological type
a. agglutinative

2. Word order
 b. SVO basic
c. VSO permissible
d. VOS permissible
e. OVS "passive" transformaton

3. adposition/noun order
 b. preposition - noun

4. adjective/noun order
 b. noun - adj

5. genitive/noun order
 b. noun - genitive

6. relative clause/noun order
 b. noun - rel. clause

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

8. adverb/verb order
a. adv - verb

9. compounding type
 b. head-first compounding

10. case type
a. nominative/accusative

11. tense system
a. time (past/present/future)


12. script
 c. con-script

and some free answer questions:

13. number of genders/noun classes
    2, anim/inanim.  Demonstratives distinguish M/F/N in singular

14. number of cases
    4, Nom., Gen. Dat. Acc.

15. number of phonemes
    20 C, 5 V
16. lexicon size
    approx. 3-4000