Re: New to the list

Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> I see auxlangs just as conlangs, where the setting I give for
> myself is a hypothetical Earth 2000-something where an IAL has been adopted;
> what should that IAL be like?
One of my early conlangs, Kagizeru, was something like that.  The idea
was a group of tribes (non-Human, an early version of my Natives) were
united.  They spoke related languages, and an auxlang was invented for
them that used common elements of those langs (such as using cases that
they had in common).  I actually made it be a few centuries after the
invention of the auxlang, to allow for a few interesting developments,
like a rule that shifted the stress; originally, stress was on the
penultimate syllable, but a rule developed that if the penult were long,
the stress was shifted to the final syllable, unless that was also long,
in which case it shifted to the antepenult, unless that was long, in
which case it just went backwards until it found a short syllable.  I
know suspect that that rule was un-naturalistic, that it would be more
likely that long vowels to *attract* stress, rather than repel it.

Incidentally, the name Kagizeru, demonstrates the agglutinative
structure and consonant-mutations:
Ka- Language us
Kiz The Kiz (the group of tribes speaking it) - I later recycled the
    name Kiz for a totally unrelated conlang, Kizval (val = language)
-e  Singular
-r  Nominative
-u  Inanimate

I've always had a fondness for agglutinating.

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