Proto-East-Arakhelian - Conlang Profile

Proto-East-Arakhelian - Conlang Profile

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Language Name	Proto-East-Arakhelian
Language Author	Maknas
Year Began	2003
Site	Proto-East-Arakhelian
Broken Link	No
Site Language	English
Language Type	fictional diachronic language
Uniqueness	Proto-East-Arakhelian is a proto-language. (Actually, it is two related ones.) The grammar is not very Indo-European, and its descendants vary from very IE-looking to very unfamiliar in appearance. It is heavily agglutinative (borderline polysynthetic), and includes a few interesting aspects such as the 'anti-volitive' (expressing a forced or natural action).
Language Sources	Many different languages were sources of inspiration. Several American Indian languages inspired the agglutinative structure, and our current reconstructions of Proto-Indo-European inspired the phonology.
Design Principles	PEA was made in such a way that it could spawn daughter languages that look very familiar to us (that is, a more IE structure), as well as ones that don't. The consonant and vowel inventories could form a wide range of possible sound systems, and the many redundancies or unstable features in the grammar could yield quite variable morphologies.
Interest Of Others	Interest is mostly limited to the ZBB.
Dictionary	Yes
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Unique Script	No
Primer	No
Babel Text	Yes
Lexicon Size	301
Submitted By	Maknas
Date Submitted	Sunday, April 24, 2005
Date Edited	Sunday, April 24, 2005
Date To Headline	Friday, April 29, 2005

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