Re: conlang servey

About my not-yet-finished conlang.

Name: Ifnat (or Ifnitisch)
Creator's name: Daniel Quernheim (HCLE)
Relative date of creation: I started in 1999 ...
Country and first language of the creator: Germany, German
Purpose: a braingame  :-) influenced and inspired by the language
"Ifnitisch" in the great book "Denken als Spiel" by Willy Hochkeppel (I
don't even know if it's been translated)

Phonetics: 12 consonants (no distinction between voiced and unvoiced)
4 vowels (a,e,i,o), they can vary in value.
Nasalization? well, i could implement that ;-)
The accent falls on the last syllable (in nouns; affixes not counted), in
verbs on the next-to-last one. Other words aren't stressed.

Morphemes:
There are some prefixes and suffixes (prepositions namely).
The language works a bit like Arabic; from three-consonant-stems various
words are derived by adding the vowels.

Nouns:
there are no noun classes (though various ways to derive nouns from stems,
hence a difference between abstract and concrete nouns).
Number and gender are not necessary, but can be expressed, like in Chinese.
There are no cases, but an object marker (direct/indirect) and a possessive
construction which is also used for adjectives.
Prepositions are prefixes, the noun takes the possessive "case". Most of
them are regular and arranged in pairs for state and act.

Verbs:
they are strictly regular. Tenses are expressed by using a participle with
tense marker. They don't take person, neither. There is no verb to be,
because most adjectives are participles from state verbs. Modes are
expressed by modal verbs.
Personal pronouns are: I, you(sing.), someone(sing+plural), he/she/it/they,
we(you and I), we (you and I and someone), you(plural).
Adverbs are the same as adjectives, and both are derived from stems like
nouns (normally in most cases)

Sentences:
Word order is strict; questions take a special question marker. The language
is accusative.

Other:
under construction :-)
I've written some diary, but I won't publish it ;-)
I've invented a script, though, maybe I can show it to you

One sentence about my language (that's hard I think):
Ifnat is a way to express my lunatic thoughts ...

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