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Among other conlangers, the following have been involved in some way: | Among other conlangers, the following have been involved in some way: | ||
* '''David Salo''' was probably the first conlanger ever to see the language. He was the earliest fan and critic of the language, and, furthermore, enjoyed proposing material for it. He submitted two proposals for the writing system, and at least one map. None of these ever became official, though I had intended to use them as a basis for whatever did. | * '''David Salo''' was probably the first conlanger ever to see the language. He was the earliest fan and critic of the language, and, furthermore, enjoyed proposing material for it. He submitted two proposals for the writing system, and at least one map. None of these ever became official, though I had intended to use them as a basis for whatever did. | ||
* | * '''Eric Christopherson''' was another early fan. He received a letter (snail-mail, if I remember right) containing a number of my language files with a cover-letter describing them all. This seems to have been around fall 1998. After various system upgrades and harddrive crashes resulted in barely legible files he even created his own version of the Caryatic file, which corrects some errors and gathers some materials that I had missed. | ||
* [ | * [[user:Nicomega|Nicomega]] probably first learned of the language in the mid 20-aughts, but never got to see all the materials. He was enjoying trying to piece things together from the fragments I gave him, and as of April 2014 was even working on a "Caryatic Report," writing up a description of the language, like some sort of scholar working from limited ancient materials. He therefore is simultaneously excited and disappointed to see me posting a fullish description here. | ||
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* I may have overdone the small case system. | * I may have overdone the small case system. | ||
* The tense/aspect system is a bit confused. | * The tense/aspect system is a bit confused. | ||
* A lot of the sound changes seem wildly implausible. | |||
* I was not very careful about the ordering of the soundlaws, resulting in many contradictions. | * I was not very careful about the ordering of the soundlaws, resulting in many contradictions. | ||
* David Salo has suggested that it is unrealistic that the stops are never voiced under any conditions. Perhaps I should make a rule that the unaspirated stops retain voicing when adjacent to a sonorant? In any case this is not the rule as things stand. | * David Salo has suggested that it is unrealistic that the stops are never voiced under any conditions. (Perhaps I should make a rule that the unaspirated stops retain voicing when adjacent to a sonorant? In any case this is not the rule as things stand.) | ||
=== Setting === | === Setting === | ||
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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
=== Nouns === | === Nouns === | ||
Nouns have three cases: nominative, genitive, and accusative (or, more accurately, "oblique.) In addition to the radical reduction of cases, case endings tend to undergo irregular sound changes that greatly shorten them. This causes nouns to behave in a fairly unpredictable manner—it can be very difficult indeed to guess a noun's declension class from the nominative alone, far more so than in, say, Latin. | |||
==== ''eH₂''-stems ==== | |||
==== ''o''-stems ==== | |||
==== consonant stems ==== | |||
===== ''i''-stems ===== | |||
==== ''u''-stems ==== | |||
=== Adectives === | === Adectives === | ||
=== Pronouns === | === Pronouns === | ||