Qþyn|gài: A Polysynthetic Language (S7)
Epilogue
Influential Languages |
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The following languages either showed me interesting features, or they struck me after I had the features in my language already. The languages are not the only bases, but they had some influence.
- Zhuǀ'hoansi, Nama
- phonemes
- Nootka
- one open lexical class
- Inuktitut, Kalaallisut
- polysynthesis, derivation
- Central Pomo
- active system based on control
- Mandarin
- tones; regularity, lack of plural
- Japanese
- sentence structure; lack of plural
- Arabic
- word structure: roots–stems, derivation
- Hebrew
- head-marking (constructive)
- Qetchua, Arabic, Inuktitut
- vowels. Although these have three, at least Proto-Inuit-Aleut seems to have had four like Qþyn|gài
- Qetchua, Arabic, Inuktitut
- uvular consonants
- Qetchua
- evidentials
- Gaelic
- collective plural
- Lojban
- logically structured grammar
Of course, other languages have the given features, too, but I learnt about the ones shown in the above list first.
Bibliography |
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Marianne Mithun, The Languages of Native North America, Cambridge Language Surveys, 1999, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-512-23228-7
Thomas E. Payne, Describing Morphosyntax -- A Guide for Field Linguists, 1997, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-58805-7
The Constructed Languages Mailing List (Conlang), http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html
