Alternative Names: Dravidlang
Family:The Maruttom languages spoken in the north and interior of the Southern Continent. Might in turn be related to the heavily dependent marking and phonologically similar languages of the West Coast and interior, but that has not be proven yet.
Location:Along the North Coast of the Southern Continent and used as a lingua franca throughout the region. Despite their relatively close locations, it is firmly out of the TbKt sphere of influence.
History: I haven't really fleshed out their history at all except that they are the Kikxotians democractic rivals to the south
Writing system: Have a local alphabet
Typological information:
- Word order: SOV
- Alignment:Nominative-Accusative
- Morphological: Agglutinative
- Lots of non-finite verbs
- No relative clauses
- Case system that is sort of European-like but also not
- Phonology stuff
- No phonemic fricatives
- Lots of sandhi
- Many point of articulation
- Many suppletive verb forms for marking moods
- Verbs
- Participial endings
- Directional
- Other derivationals
- Voice
- Tense
- Aspect
- Subject
- Mood (sometimes)
- Evidentials
- Nouns
- Gender
- Case
- Other postpositional clitics
Origins: June 2017 for a two hour challenge.
History: I was gonna do the previous two hour challenge with an Austroasiatic lang and then this one got posted so I did it.
Status: In-development. I often do translates in it. The verb system still needs a ton of work, and nouns can definitely be expanded on. Also I want to make it more unique (which I think is already happening since I haven't really looked at Dravidian grammars while working on it (for this reason) since the challenge)
What I'm doing with it and why:
Other Notes:
9/7/17- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on it
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