Re: Conlang Dream

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:33:34 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Rhiemeier
<joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:

>Nice!  The 2nd person pronoun _ti_ and the negative particle _na_
>remind me at Indo-European, Uralic and related languages.  (Of course,
>just two morphemes don't allow any determination of relationship.)
>Is your language something like that?
Not sure yet.  The language still consists of only those four
sentences. :P  Some ideas, though:

1st-person singular: xa, mi, or ni
Pronominal accusative: -m or -n
Either no case-markings on nouns or a simple nominative-oblique distinction
Plural perhaps in -na
Verb stuff: past tense in -u or -i (more likely the former), passive in -ta
or -tha (that is, /-Ta/), infinitive in -en or -in (depends on whether I
have a 3-vowel or a 5-vowel scheme)
Some enclitic stuff, like the ending -yum/-m for 'indeed', interrogative
marker (probably), conjunctions, maybe even pronominal possessives
Default word-order SOV, modifiers precede headwords but prepositions
Possibly postvocalic lenition of some stops, like in Hebrew and Aramaic

>P.S. A few days ago I had a daydream about a visit in a Zireen city.
>It looked just like a modern western city (Herman Miller certainly
>has different ideas) except that everything was about half normal
>size, and some buildings, signs, etc. had odd colours.  There were
>posters, paintings, etc. where some of the colours were off by
>adding or subtracting red (which is invisible to Zireen).
Who (or what) are the Zireen?

- Rob

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