>I'm curious about the distribution of the types of conlangs on this list.
>So, a survey. Maybe it will generate some on-topic discussions. Answer it
>for your respective conlangs:
This is for my language pjaukra.
>multiple choices can be selected for any of these questions if that makes
>sense for your conlang.
>
>1. morphological type
>a. agglutinative
>b. fusional/inflecting
>c. polysynthetic
>d. isolating
b
>2. Word order
>a. SOV
>b. SVO
>c. VSO
>d. VOS
>e. OVS
>f. OSV
>g. free
a and b (at least those are the unmarked orders; I suppose word order could
be called free)
>3. adposition/noun order
>a. noun - preposition
>b. preposition - noun
b
>4. adjective/noun order
>a. adj - noun
>b. noun - adj
b
>5. genitive/noun order
>a. genitive - noun
>b. noun - genitive
b
>6. relative clause/noun order
>a. rel. clause - noun
>b. noun - rel. clause
b
>7. main verb/aux verb order
>a. main verb - aux verb
>b. aux verb - main verb
mostly b, occasionally a
>8. adverb/verb order
>a. adv - verb
>b. verb - adv
a
>9. compounding type
>a. head-last compounding
>b. head-first compounding
a
>10. case type
>a. nominative/accusative
>b. ergative/absolutive
>c. split ergative
>d. other
a
>11. tense system
>a. time (past/present/future)
>b. aspect
>c. realis/irrealis
a, b
>12. script
>a. latin
>b. other existing natlang script
>c. con-script
c (there's a Romanized orthography, of course, but the speakers, not having
any contact with our world, can't know of it)
>and some free answer questions:
>
>13. number of genders/noun classes
4 declensions (not really classes: nothing agrees with them)
>14. number of cases
4
>15. number of phonemes
30 consonants, 4 vowels
>16. lexicon size
slowly approaching nine gross
Alex