Sinampaiton - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Sinampaiton Language Author Paul Hoffman Year Began 1978 Site Sinampaiton Broken Link No Site Language English Site Author Paul Hoffman Language Type fictional diachronic language Uniqueness Sinampaiton breaks (or bends) at least one of Joseph H. Greenberg's universals of grammar. Most notably, its split-ergative system is (syntactically) nominative/accusative in nouns but (morphologically) ergative/absolutive in pronouns. Language Sources Originally inspired by Quenya, Sindarin, Spanish, Greek, and Old English. Additional inspiration has come from Proto-Indo-European, Zulu, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Welsh, Arabic, Japanese, and elsewhere. Design Principles Naturalness and personal esthetics. Dictionary Yes Etymologies No Grammar No Sample Texts No Unique Script No Primer No Babel Text No Lexicon Size 2,451 Submitted By Paul Hoffman Date Submitted Monday, April 01, 2002 Updated By Paul Hoffman Date Edited Saturday, April 24, 2004 Description Of Update Change lexicon size to reflect recent additions Date To Headline Sunday, April 25, 2004 < SIMPLE  Sinampaiton  Sindarin >
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