Re: conlang servey

> Language name,
Skuodian

> creator's name,
Pavel Iosad

> realative date of
> creation (just any old number will do),
Since this spring

> country and first language of creator,
Russia, Russian

> purpose of conlang
> (auxlang, conlang, loglang, . . . ).
Definitely an artlang

> Phonetics:  number of consonants,
14 or 15

> number of vowels,
5 vowels (all of the phnemically short/long), several diphthongs (5 or
6)

> presence of nasalization, tone and how many,
No and no

> where the accent generally falls.
Strictly on the first syllable.

> Morphemes:  presence of allomorphs,
Yes

> mutation,
No

> assimilation,
Yes

> prefixes, suffixes,
Yes and yes

> infixes,
No

> suprafixation,
No

> dicontinuation, exclusion,
Dobn't know what that is

> total fusion, subtraction,
No and no.

> reduplication.
Negligibly little

> Is the conlang
> agglutinating, isolating or fusional?
Fusional

> Nouns and such:  subclasses of nouns (common/proper,
> abstract, things that may not be expressed explicitly
> in affixes),
Yes, yes, verbal nouns a distinct class.

> presence of cases and how many and what
> kind,
Seven - Nom, Gen, Dat, Acc, Instrumental, Loc, Voc

> kind of possession (alienable, inalienable, no
> distinction, etc.)
No distinction (well, it's lexical, naturally)

> presence of gender,
Masc, Fem, Neut, General

> number,
Sg, Pl, Dual, Sg and Pl tantum

> articles,
No

> demostratives,
Yes

> adjectives,
Yes

> quantatives.
Yes,

> Are comparatives expressed by affix, word order or both?
Affix

> Do pronouns express gender, number, declension?
Gender and number + are declinable

> Are there indefinite pronouns, possessed pronouns?
Yes and no

> Others?
Yes

> Are prepositions bound, unbound?
Bound

> How many prepositons (approximate).
Lots (>25)

> Presence of clitics.
Yes

> Is derivational morphology mostly by compounding words or
> by affix or both?
Both

> Verbs and such:
> Are person, number, object expressed with the verb?
Yes, yes, 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?
Can't say off the top of my head :-)

> Is the person inclusive, exclusive, no distiction?
No dsitnction (lexical again, of course)

> Kind of gender.
Grammatical

> Are past, present, future expressed?
Yes, yes, yes

> Recent, remote?
recent

> Is mode express, what kind?  Is voice
> expressed?  What kind?  Manner?  Aspect?
Perfective/imperfective aspect, plus the tenses: perfect, imperfect,
aorist all express aspect

> Presence of adverbs, pro-drop.
Yes; sometimes

> Can
> nouns, adjectives, adverbs be changed to verbs and
> vice versa?
By derivation

> Presence of adjective, adverbial clauses and relative
> pronouns.
Yes

> Sentences:
> Does the conlang have an ergative or accusative
> system?
Accusative

> Word order and is it free or strict?
Relatively free, verb-final is preferred

> Are
> adjectives, adverbs and prepositions before or after
> the modified word?
Follow

> Is the word order changed in a
> question?
No

>  How many (approximately) conjugations are
> there?
Three

> Other:
> What is the number base for the numeral system (10?
> 12?)?
10

> Presence of idioms, irregular forms of nouns
> and verbs.
Yes

> Is the language syntax very predictable,
> or are there many exceptions?
Some exceptions, but not too many

> How much literature has
> been produced and what kind (I'm not talking about
> translations, but stuff you wrote yourself).
Very little

>  Is there
> a history and dictionary of the conlang?
Almost completed and just started

> Script invented?
Latin used in con-history

> If you could summarize your conlang in a sentence,
> what would you write?
Skuodian is half Slavic, half Finnish and one-third Lithuanian (I
thought I gave that definition already)

Pavel
--
Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

Is mall a mharcaicheas am fear a bheachdaicheas
                 --Scottish proverb