Alternative Names: The Language of the Sea Peoples, Toúījāb Vīggo Gfutīt
Family: Neaso family (which might be part of a broader hypothetical Gulf family, though the links are shaky at best, especially with most of the family being extinct)
Location: In the city of Uxlots on the big delta of the big river on the northeast part of the bay and it's surrounding areas. Also serves as lingua franca in the eastern bay area. In reality, it forms a dialect continuum with other Neaso languages, which are spoken up and down the coast (to the mountains at least), along the rivers and more southernly plains and basically all over the eastern side of the bay.
History: While always an important trading center, the last couple of hundred years have boosted Uxlots importance and gave it more political power in the region, hence the choice of its language to showcase the broader features of its family.
Writing System: Modified version of the Kikxotian logography, mostly used as an alphabet with some logographs.
Typological information:
- Word order:VSO with secondary SVO
- Alignment:Active-Stative (mostly split-S but it has some fluid elements)
- Morphological: Fusional
- Active stative alignment, of course
- Only stative verbs, no adjectives
- Umlaut
- Fusionality (since I've never really done that before)
- European(ish) case system
- Marked definiteness
- Multiple declensions
- Finite vs non-finite verbs
- Lots of constructions are made with an auxillary + non-finite form
- Strong division between Parts of Speech, especially nouns and verbs
- Limited compounding
- Willingness to loan
- Verbs
- Agreement (one suffix)
- Tense
- Aspect
- Subject Person
- Subject Number
- Non-finitity (suffix)
- Infinitive
- Stative
- General non-finite
- Nouns (all on one suffix)
- Definiteness
- Case
- Number
Origins: Mid to late 2015, in Indonesia while on my mission and after writing up a letter on TbKt and realizing how much I missed conlanging.
History: As mentioned, after I wrote my first letter about TbKt, I was having so much fun so I decided to make another language, to be a neighbor of TbKt that was really different than it. I wanted to do things with loan words and try out fusionality. And weird verbal things for some reason. Also a vaguely germanic feel? In retrospect, it's almost like it was meant to be a Germlang but also not at all a Germlang. Well I stopped conlanging before I sent the letter with this one so (I still have all the materials and) my friend has no idea of it and it sat around until I started again. I had a much harder time going back to this one because the idea was just more nebulous and more difficult, but I do want to eventually fix up and flesh it out more. Now it is important for worldbuilding, but it itself is still very underdeveloped.
Status: In-development. I work on it sometimes but it usually gets shelved (because it is hard and its verbal system is a mess)
What I'm doing with it and why: Sitting on it mostly :p . One day I'll figure out more uses for it. It's weird romanization (and eventually orthography) has proved useful in justifying decisions for Papualang though.
CALS link:
Other Notes:This is probably one of my least impressionistic conlangs (so most unique :p ). I feel like it's really hard to pin the inspirations and stuff on it. Which is cool I guess.
9/2/17- Probably enough for now. One day I'll get a CALS page and other stuff on it
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