Re: Are any of you working on a conlang that is based off ofnon-indo-european languages?

a. koch <k.aleks@...> 2002.05.30. 02:52:20 +2h-kor írta:
> If any of you guys have information up about your non-IE - or
> two-thirds non-IE ;)languages i'd love to see them. I've recently
> been working on a language which steals some vocab from tagalog and
> just decided to ask if any of you did anything with non-ie languages.
> Aleut, too? that reminds me that this language i'm working on also
> only has three vowels. heh.
I don't know what do you expect from me, but I have to say, even when I base a
language on Hungarian, that means only it's a language with lots of suffixes,
prepositions, affixes, but nothing special in other grammatical aspects.
Hungarian word order is mostly free, depends on what's important in the
sentence. Greatest part of its lexicon is derived from the languages around.

OK, I have verbs, where personal pronoun must not stand (and I like it!), I can
have full sentences without any verb, (f.e. I can say: I lúme uno. -> The sky
is black. literally "the sky black"), and in some dialects of the language
(mostly in the southern ones) there are 7 vowels: i, e, a, o, u, ö, ü....

An important thing about Hungarian: I don't know any other languages, where the
suffix for a word is chosen following phonological rules :)
When I say: I go to the house: Odamegyek a házHOZ.
Or: I go to the fridge. Odamegyek a hűtőHÖZ.
Or: I go to the chair. Odamegyek a székHEZ.
I tried to use this rule, too, but I'm not able to create so much suffixes (at the moment).

But that's all I think. My problem is that I speak German and English and Italian
and a little bit of Spanish, so I'm clearly influenced by them :) I simply
tried to collect all grammatical, phonological, ideological etc. things I liked
in these languages.
What do you think?
        Balazs

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