> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:43:16 -0500, deinx nxtxr wrote:
> > > Phonologically it only has one really odd phoneme.
>
> Huh? What is the one odd phoneme? How can an isolated
> phoneme be odd?
By "odd" I meant "uncommon". The phoneme in question is /t_l_h/. ISTR reading
that Okrand specialized in the North American languages found in the West so
it's not too surprising. I know Nahuatl/Aztec has /t_l/.
> > > The only grammatical thing that I see being "different"
> are the verb
> > prefixes
> > > that represent subject-object combinations.
>
> The odd thing there is that it's an agglutinating language,
> but has subject/object combined into unanalyzable prefixes.
> That kind of one-affix-tells-you-many-things feature is
> usually associated with inflecting languages.
At some point years ago I read through the Kligon grammar pretty thoroougly, and
this was the only part of the language I really found difficult, but my
interest didn't carry me into actually trying to learn the language. I tend to
look at a lot of conlangs just to satisfy my curiosity about their structure.