Re: my first conlang

Patrick Jarrett wrote:
> What I have planned, is an initial greeting, with different additions
> depending on the situation, status and rank of the people involved.
In some cultures, who speaks first depends on relative status.  Often,
the person who speaks first is considered to be of higher rank.

> And there will most likely be a dozen or so of these sorts of greetings,
> then I will move to departing messages.
The Kassí (at least in the Classical Period*) tend to be pretty
egalitarian.  There is rank, based mostly on age, and there are slaves,
but free persons are basically equal.  There is no gramaticalized
distinctions based on rank, with the exception that Elders take the
Name-Particle díz instead of tá/kús.

*My descriptions are of Classical Utakassí, the speach of díz tiNlastá,
the prophet who brought a new religion to the Kassí, based on
revelations given to her by the Goddess.  This new religion radically
altered society.  After the Holy Wars, many towns grew into cities,
greater wealth accumulated in the hands of a few, and a more rigidly
hierarchal society developed.  The religion was spread, often by further
Holy Wars, across a vast Holy Empire, which later fell apart, and a
whole family of descendants arose.