Proto-Drem (Grammar of Glójžož) - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Proto-Drem Language Author Kevin Urbanczyk Year Began 2003 Site Proto-Drem Broken Link No Site Language English Site Author Kevin Urbanczyk Language Type fictional diachronic language Uniqueness A few oddities, like having 17 cases (ideas from Finnish and Russian). Another fun one is what I did with adjectives and adverbs... the suffix is dependent on gender (Animate vs. Inanimate) and case (so that the word meaning "bloody" is really 'blood+[adjective particle]'). Another fun idea was Intensification and Comparisons of Degree. As for my "Flip morpheme", this little gem takes an adjective and turns it into an adverb and vice versa: not in a standard way, mind you, since an adjective is still a noun, but I can now bury a noun phrase in a verb phrase, and say the whole sentence (word) is just a verb phrase ... to get the full idea of these neat modifiers, you'll have to look and see :). Sentences such as Lìề.ĝiş.ýè.ĝâgd.id.l.pep are popular for the haiku-like poetry of Proto-Drem. Language Sources It is agglutinative (almost fusional), with some definite inflection going on. Ancient ergative/absolutive natlangs with much influence from Basque and Georgian. A standard SVO/SOV language and a few other ergative natlangs out there. An African-style three-tone system with front/back vowel harmony. Using phrasal tones (upstepping and downstepping) from Hausa, and some unique "oddities" like the Gender system from Proto Indo-European. Design Principles Ergative/Absolutive, with the Register tone system generally seen in Western African languages and front/back harmony system. Having some "odd" items either from natural languages or original ideas or from other conlangs. Interest Of Others Just the guys on ZBB. Quotation Lìềĝişýèĝâgdidlpep Explanation TAMVmarker+3S+bird+adj+verbalizer+v. To fly. (As in "the bird just finished flying", since the TAMV is using indicative mood, aorist tense, habitual aspect and active voice.) Translation The bird (habitually) just flew again. QUpdateDescription = Pronominal constructions, sound changes, poetry notes. Dictionary Yes Etymologies Yes Grammar Yes Sample Texts Yes Unique Script No Primer No Babel Text No Lexicon Size 2,500 Submitted By Kevin Urbanczyk Date Submitted Saturday, November 15, 2003 Updated By Aug 22, 2004 Date Edited Saturday, September 04, 2004 Date To Headline Wednesday, September 15, 2004 < Proto-Dalurian  Proto-Drem  Proto-East-Arakhelian >
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