Zesefde Heather Rice <florarroz@...> ta 2002.12.21. her 08:56:17 -8h:
Well I have created another animal languages so I will post it.
> Language name, creator's name,
Meyadhew, Ábrahám Zsófia
> relative date of creation (just any old number will do),
2002
> country and first language of creator,
Hungary, Hungarian
> purpose of conlang
Art(?)lang,
> Phonetics: number of consonants, number of vowels,
~36 :: 15 + some diphtongs
> presence of nasalization, tone and how many, where the
none of them
> accent generally falls.
On the first long syllabe or the second-to-last syllabe.
> Morphemes: presence of allomorphs, mutation,
Both. 3 kind of mutation.
> assimilation, prefixes, suffixes, infixes,
pre- and suffixes. Assimilation: not yet but planned to be.
> suprafixation, dicontinuation, exclusion, total
what?
> fusion, subtraction, reduplication. Is the conlang
> agglutinating, isolating or fusional?
Mostly inflecting with some traces of agglutination and fusionism.
> Nouns and such: subclasses of nouns (common/proper,
> abstract, things that may not be expressed explicitly
> in affixes),
Bantu-ish class system.
> presence of cases and how many and what
> kind,
four cases: nominative, genitive (marked on the possessed),
sociative, ablative
> kind of possession (alienable, inalienable, no distinction, etc.)
no disc.
> presence of gender, number,
none of 'em.
> articles, demostratives, adjectives, quantatives. Are
no articles, independent or prefixed demonstratives,
there're adjectives and numerals (if quantatives are those)
> comparatives expressed by affix, word order or both?
by particles and word order.
> Do pronouns express gender, number, declension? Are
only class since there anen't numbers :)
> there indefinite pronouns, possessed pronouns?
not yet done but planned to be
> Others? Are prepositions bound, unbound? How many
most of them bound
> prepositons (approximate). Presence of clitics. Is
since M is still very fluent, it's better not to say how many.
> derivational morphology mostly by compounding words or
> by affix or both?
Both. But compounding is more important.
> Verbs and such:
> Are person, number, object expressed with the verb?
only person.
> Are there static verbs (to be)? Is the object
yeah. Very important.
> incorporated into the person marker (making a
> phonetically different affix like in the Native
> American languages)?
No.
> Is transitivity marked for
> transitive, intransitive, bitransitive or other? Is
No.
> the person inclusive, exclusive, no distiction? Kind
> of gender. Are past, present, future expressed?
No dist and no. There aren't any tenses only strong evidentailty.
> Recent, remote? Is mode express, what kind? Is voice
Indicative, Querative, Imperative.
> expressed? What kind? Manner? Aspect? Please list
Only perfect-imperfect ones. Verbs are simple to an end.
> Presence of adverbs, pro-drop. Can
There are some advrbs tho' I did not thought much yet about them.
> nouns, adjectives, adverbs be changed to verbs and
> vice versa?
Yes. Even there a noun can be inflected like a verb or an adjective like in English.
> Presence of adjective, adverbial clauses and relative
> pronouns.
Yes.
> Sentences:
> Does the conlang have an ergative or accusative
> system?
Acusative.
> Word order and is it free or strict? Are
Strictly OVS.
> adjectives, adverbs and prepositions before or after
> the modified word?
Mainly after the head though it is more freer.
> Is the word order changed in a
> question?
there's no need since there is the queritative mood :)
> How many (approximately) conjugations are
> there?
One. But six declinations.
> Other:
> What is the number base for the numeral system (10?
> 12?)?
20
Presence of idioms, irregular forms of nouns
> and verbs.
A lot!
> Is the language syntax very predictable,
> or are there many exceptions?
A lot of exceptions and irregularities.
> How much literature has
> been produced and what kind (I'm not talking about
> translations, but stuff you wrote yourself).
Only some little phrases but there is very little vocabulary because
I just started redreaming the lang around two weeks ago.
Is there
> a history and dictionary of the conlang? Script
> invented?
Both, with a big conculture. Several different styles of writing (the
most often used is the Ngeleyion-style.)
> Other conlangs produced by the creator of
> this one.
Long Wer
> If you could summarize your conlang in a sentence,
> what would you write?
Lelókan eAfrika.
"The spirit of Africa."
--
Mau
Ábrahám Zsófia alias Mau Rauszer
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