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Re: your conlang, please? (Rich Aunt gets hold of the Lunatic Survey)

From:Clinton Moreland-Stringham <morelanc@...>
Date:Friday, October 2, 1998, 5:27
> >11) what your conlang is called,
Aelya
> > >12) what are its unique features, and
very flexible grammar, moving from extremely formulaic (an example phrase: "into the blackthorn" theraminna) and agglutinative (high register) to the isolating and low register (mi na'n thera - lit. inside to the blackthorn) flexible nominal/verbal categorization (le ataruvan "you will be my father" with atar "father" being a verb vs. ataryn delle "my father went" with atar as a noun) classifiers: 9 classifiers which indicate general shape/category of every noun, as well as plurality, in some cases (e.g. al "wood" can be in al "the stump (a living chunk of wood)" n'al "the stumps" c' al "the wooden ball (or any roughly spherical piece of wood)" l'al "the board (or other long skinny piece of wood, more likely a pole)" etc) pronouns suffixes which serve as subject markers, object markers, AND possessive markers (e.g. anna - to give, annan - I give, annas - he gives, annanyes - I give it (n/nye = I, s/r = he/she/it), annan - my gift) three virtual tenses (somewhat similar to the irrealis or subjunctive): potential, virtual, and probable. no words for good, bad, moral, immoral, evil, etc.
> > > 13) whether you have a website. >
Not really. Clinton