Re: conlang servey

Language name,

        Sohlob [sQ"KQb_0]

creator's name,

        Benct Philip Jonsson

realative date of
creation (just any old number will do),

        1999-present

country and
first language of creator,

        Sweden; Swedish, German

purpose of conlang
(auxlang,

        artlang, experilang; a-priori vocabulary

Phonetics:  number of consonants,

        20-25, depending if you count some as clusters or unitary

number of vowels,

        6, with vowel harmony

presence of nasalization,

        no

tone and how many,

        0

where the
accent generally falls

        last syllable of phrase -- exceptions exist

Morphemes:  presence of allomorphs,

        lots, due to vowel harmony

mutation,

        no

assimilation,

        yes

prefixes,

        no

suffixes,

        lots

infixes,
suprafixation,

        no, at present

dicontinuation,

        no, at present

exclusion,

        If you mean some morphemes are optional, yes

total
fusion,

        no, tho some morpheme boundaries get blurred by VH and assimilation.

subtraction,

        What?

reduplication.

        not at present

Is the conlang
agglutinating,

        yep

isolating or fusional?

        no

Nouns and such:  subclasses of nouns (common/proper,
abstract,

        no formal subdivision, no formal adjective/substantive difference

things that may not be expressed explicitly
in affixes),

        voice

presence of cases and how many and what
kind,

        yes, many, grammatical and spatial

kind of possession (alienable,

        not looked into that yet.  No genitive, btw.

etc.) presence of gender,

        no

number,

        yes, optionally

articles,

        no

demostratives,

        yes

adjectives,

        no

quantatives.

        yes

Are
comparatives expressed by affix, word order or both?

        both

Do pronouns express gender,

        yes

number,

        yes

declension?

        yes

Are
there indefinite pronouns,

        yes

Are prepositions bound, unbound?

        mostly case is used instead.  What prepositions there are are formally nouns


How many
prepositons (approximate).

        open class

Presence of clitics.

        yes

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

        both

Verbs and such:
Are person,

        optionally

number,

        optionally -- along with person

object

        no

expressed with the verb?

Are there static verbs (to be)?

        statIVE verbs do exist.  The copula is different from the existential
verb, and is optional.

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?

        in-, bi- and transitivity may be changed with affixes, marking is optional
with underived verbs (most verbs) tho transitivity is semantically inherent
in the verb.

Is
the person inclusive, exclusive, no distiction?

        distinction

Kind
of gender.

        none, except sex is expressed in pronouns

Are past,

        yes

present,

        yes

future

        no

expressed?

Recent, remote?

        no

Is mode express,

        yes

what kind?

        infinitive, indicative, subjunctive (actually irrealis)

Is voice
expressed?

        through word order

Manner?

        n/a

Aspect?

        through affixes (perfective) and word order (durative)

Please list
what kinds of manner and aspect the conlang expresses
in its verbs.

        (imperfective), perfective, durative aspect

Presence of adverbs,

        yes

pro-drop.

        n/a

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

        Yes

Presence of adjective, adverbial clauses and relative
pronouns.

yes -- relative particle rather than pronoun

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

        ergative

Word order and is it free or strict?

        rather strict, tho not used to express agent/patient roles!

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

        either, though mostly after

Is the word order changed in a
question?

        no -- question particle used

How many (approximately) conjugations are
there?

        one, though VH and assimilation causes some complication

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

        10 or 8 -- haven't decided, for lack of a convenient base-10-to-base-8
converter

Presence of idioms,

        yes

irregular forms of nouns
and verbs.

        no

Is the language syntax very predictable,
or are there many exceptions?

        some exceptions

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


        very little _in_ the lang, some about the lang and the conculture (in
Swe/Eng).

Is there
a history and dictionary of the conlang?

        yes

Script
invented?

        several times :-) none satisfactory

Other conlangs produced by the creator of
this one.

        Several youthful sins, including auxlangy ones; Funus (defunct), Rumiyaan
(dormant), Fozha (dormant), "Thiuzi" (semi-dormant), Inglisc
(semi-dormant), Slevanek (semi-active), Ljuc'ka (semi-active).

If you could summarize your conlang in a sentence,
what would you write?

Sohlob is essentially everything I like about Persian, Tibetan, Finnish and
Mongolian, plus random bits of cool grammar with an a-priori vocabulary.


/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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