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

I've recently begun a new project.  So, I'll answer this about my new
project.

Sally Caves wrote:
>                  11) what your conlang is called,
Haven't decided yet.

>                  12) what are its unique features, and
It's designed as an artificial language.  The idea is that a group of
alien species got together to create a language they could all use.  Few
of them shared a common communication-system (e.g., some used a
cricket-like system, some used differing colors - chameleon-style, and
so on), so they created a "phonology" in which all the "phonemes" were
divided into two classes, which were called A & B.  These classes could
be interpreted in different ways by different species, so that Humans
would interpret them as consonants and vowels.  There were 16 A and 8 B,
which made up words in the pattern AB ("syllables") repeated two or
three times.  Two in the A class could end a "syllable" - one of them
("n") ended and began roots, if there were prefixes and suffixes, and
one of them ("l") ended words, thus a nice morpheme-level and word-level
self-segregation.  Prefixes and suffixes are all "mono-syllables".  For
two species to communicate using this language, each needs merely know
how the other interprets the A's and B's.

The grammar is isolating using particles to indicate gramatical
relations.  I haven't worked out the details yet.

>                  13) whether you have a website.
Not for this one.

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