On Friday 25 October 2002 4:16 am, you wrote:
> Language name
Zitwbata
>creator's name
Joseph Hill
>relative date of creation (just any old number will do),
Sometime last year
>country and
> first language of creator,
Uk, English
>purpose of conlang (auxlang, conlang, loglang, . . . )
conlang
> Phonetics: number of consonants
22
>number of vowels,
6
> presence of nasalization, tone and how many, where the
> accent generally falls.
Hmmm...Accent falls on second to las tvowel
> Morphemes: presence of allomorphs
Nope
>mutation,
nope
> assimilation,
nope
>prefixes
lots
>suffixes
nope
>infixes,
The whole thing revolves around infixes
> suprafixation,
nope
>dicontinuation
nope
> exclusion
no
>total fusion
I think so...
>subtraction
nope
>reduplication.
not grammatical reduplication
>Is the conlang agglutinating, isolating or fusional?
fusional, with a hint of agglutinating
>
> Nouns and such: subclasses of nouns (common/proper,
> abstract, things that may not be expressed explicitly
> in affixes),
no, none
>presence of cases and how many and what
> kind, kind of possession (alienable, inalienable, no
> distinction, etc.)
Yes, 4 of them, Nominative, Accusative, Genitive and Dative
>presence of gender,
No
>number
Yes, Singular, Plural and Dual
> articles
Definite article, no indefinite
> demostratives
of course
>adjectives
Yes
> quantatives.
Yes
>Are
> comparatives expressed by affix, word order or both?
affix
> Do pronouns express gender, number, declension?
Yes, apart from Gender
>Are there indefinite pronouns, possessed pronouns?
No, neither
> Others? Are prepositions bound, unbound?
bound
> How many prepositons (approximate).
A mere 9.
> Presence of clitics. Is
> derivational morphology mostly by compounding words or
> by affix or both?
Compounding
>
> Verbs and such:
> Are person, number, object expressed with the verb?
No.
> Are there static verbs (to be)?
Yes
>Is the object incorporated into the person marker (making a
> phonetically different affix like in the Native
> American languages)?
No
> Is transitivity marked for transitive, intransitive, bitransitive or other?
No
> Is the person inclusive, exclusive, no distiction?
N/a
> Kind of gender.
N/a
>Are past, present, future expressed?
All of them.
> Recent, remote? Is mode express, what kind? Is voice
> expressed? What kind? Manner? Aspect? Please list
> what kinds of manner and aspect the conlang expresses
> in its verbs. Presence of adverbs, pro-drop.
All No.
>Can nouns, adjectives, adverbs be changed to verbs and
> vice versa?
Yes, by using a prefix
> Presence of adjective, adverbial clauses and relative
> pronouns.
Yup
> Sentences:
> Does the conlang have an ergative or accusative
> system?
Accusative
>Word order and is it free or strict?
hmmm..theoretically free, practically quite strict
> Are adjectives, adverbs and prepositions before or after
> the modified word?
Before
>Is the word order changed in a
> question?
No, Questions are by interrogative words only (and pitch change, in some
dialects)
>How many (approximately) conjugations are
> there?
3
> Other:
> What is the number base for the numeral system (10?
> 12?)?
There are two - 16 and 25, these can be freely combined.
> Presence of idioms, irregular forms of nouns
> and verbs.
Idioms are common, there are -no- irregular nouns and verbs (in my
conculture, it was regularised a few years back, based on the Zitwbaja
Dialect)
>Is the language syntax very predictable,
> or are there many exceptions?
predictable
>How much literature has
> been produced and what kind (I'm not talking about
> translations, but stuff you wrote yourself).
About 20 or 30 words
>Is there a history and dictionary of the conlang?
Yes, both, but not to the public.
>Script invented?
No
> Other conlangs produced by the creator of
> this one.
None
> If you could summarize your conlang in a sentence,
> what would you write?
Boring and ugly, but it has a kind of charm.