Features for Enamyn

Share & Bookmark

Phonology

Consonant Inventories WALS Average 
IPA: /p b t d k m n f v θ s ʃ x ts tʃ ɬ l r j/
X-SAMPA: /p b t d k m n f v T s S x ts tS K l r j/
Vowel Quality Inventories WALS Average (5-6) 
IPA: /i ɛ a o ɯ/
X-SAMPA: /i E a o M/
Consonant-Vowel Ratio WALS Average 
Ratio of consonants to vowels: 19/5, or 3.8.
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives WALS In both plosives and fricatives 
There is only one voiced fricative, /v/.
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems WALS Missing /g/
Uvular Consonants WALS None
Glottalized Consonants WALS No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants WALS /l/ and lateral obstruent
The Velar Nasal WALS No velar nasal
Vowel Nasalization WALS Contrast absent
Front Rounded Vowels WALS None
Syllable Structure WALS Complex
Tone WALS No tones
Absence of Common Consonants WALS All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants WALS 'Th' sounds 
Has a voiceless dental fricative (/θ/).

Morphology

Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Ablaut/concatenative
Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives WALS Case + TAM
Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb WALS 4-5 categories per word
Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases WALS Dependent marking
Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology WALS Weakly suffixing
Reduplication WALS No productive reduplication
Case Syncretism WALS Core and non-core
Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking WALS Not syncretic

Nominal Categories

Number of Genders WALS Two 
Animate and inanimate.
Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems WALS Non-sex-based
Systems of Gender Assignment WALS Semantic
Coding of Nominal Plurality WALS No plural
Occurrence of Nominal Plurality WALS No nominal plural
Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS Person-number stem
The Associative Plural WALS Unique affixal associative plural
Definite Articles WALS Definite affix 
The definite article is a proclitic.
Indefinite Articles WALS No indefinite, but definite article
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns WALS Inclusive/exclusive
Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection WALS Inclusive/exclusive
Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives WALS Four-way contrast 
1. Near the speaker.
2. Near the listener.
3. Away from (but visible) both the speaker and listener.
4. Away from (and invisible) both the speaker and listener.
Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns WALS 3rd person only, but also non-singular
Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns WALS Multiple politeness distinctions
Indefinite Pronouns WALS Special
Number of Cases WALS 10 or more cases
Asymmetrical Case-Marking WALS Syncretism in relevant NP-types
Position of Case Affixes WALS Mixed morphological case
Comitatives and Instrumentals WALS Mixed
Ordinal Numerals WALS One-th, two-th, three-th
Distributive Numerals WALS Marked by suffix
Numeral Classifiers WALS Absent

Nominal Syntax

Obligatory Possessive Inflection WALS Exists
Possessive Classification WALS Two classes
Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS Moderately differentiated in other ways
Adjectives without Nouns WALS Marked by prefix
Noun Phrase Conjunction WALS 'And' different from 'with'

Verbal Categories

The Past Tense WALS Present, no remoteness distinctions
The Future Tense WALS Inflectional future exists

Word Order

Order of Subject, Object and Verb WALS SOV
Order of Subject and Verb WALS VS
Order of Object and Verb WALS OV

Lexicon

Hand and Arm WALS Different
Finger and Hand WALS Different
Numeral Bases WALS Other base 
Base 8 (1-8), without zero.
Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories WALS 6
Number of Basic Colour Categories WALS 11
Green and Blue WALS Green vs. blue
Red and Yellow WALS Red vs. yellow
Tea WALS Others

Other

Writing Systems WALS Alphabetic 
Enamyn had two writing systems: an older script written vertically (top to bottom, left to right) and a newer script--created in the late 5th century--written horizontally (left to right, top to bottom). The only surviving instances of the older script are as illuminations in Bible codices from the 8th and 9th centuries.
Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks WALS Other or none 
Unknown, as no such descriptions exist in extant texts..

Conlang-specific

Conlang type Artlang

Comments:

No comments yet