Native Name: Llorkėla /ˌɬoɾ.'kʼé.la/
Native Short Name: N/A
A Priori or Posteriori?: A Priori
Isolate or in a Family?: Llorėsan family (dragon languages)
Inherited Language Features: Palatal laterals, ejectives, some vowel devoicing
How Many Numbers?: 4
Which Numbers?: Singular, dual, trial, plural
Native Script: Yes, though it is the only written Llorėsan language.
Romanised?: Yes. The only diacritic is the diaresis, which indicates high tone. Why did I use the diaresis instead of the macron like Pinyin? Because a macron doesn't look Elvish.
Predominant Affix Type: Some prefixes, some suffixes, but no infixes here.
Variable or Absolute Suffixes?: Some amount of variance is planned.
Morphosyntactic Alignment: Tripartite (because I can)
Primary Word Order: SOV
Alternate Word Order: VSO (when using passive/antipassive)
Head Position: Don't know yet. I'm thinking it'll be more head-initial.
Language Type: This is the agglutinating black sheep; the other dragon languages are polysynthetic.
Different Registers?: Yes.
Amount of Registers: 3
Types of Registers: Formal/informal/dragon
How Are They Formed: Different syntax and lexical items.
Declined?: Yes.
Conjugated? Yes.
Amount of Phonemes: 29
How Many in Each Class?: 23 Consonants, 4 vowels, 2 semivowels
Basic Syllable Structure: (C)V
Significant Sound Changes?: Yes
Which (if any)?: /i/ -> /j/ for ia, ie, io
Tonality?: Yes
Amount of Tones: 2 tones: high/low
Phonemic Stress?: Yes (may change as I work the tonal system)
Amounts of Stress: Primary/secondary
Stress Position: usually initial, often final, occasionally penultimate
Affixes or (P)articles?: Mostly affixes, some particles.
Cases?: Yes.
Amount of Cases: Final number TBD, but currently
What Are They? Decided: Subject, agent, patient; locative, ablative, allative; genitive, possessive, dative, benefactive. Undecided: vocative, malafactive
Verb Categories: TAM Trifecta, but more aspect-obsessed.
Amount for Each Category: 4 tenses (distant past, recent past, present, future), TBD aspects (not a good sign for an aspect-obsessed language), TBD moods (definitely going to have optative and desiderative, but I'm thinking about jussive as well)
How Are They Formed?: Affixes.
Pronouns?: Yes.
How many Persons?: currently 3
Genders?: Masculine, feminine, dragon (m/f subgenders), other living things (animate), non-living things (inanimate)
Clusitivity?: Gender-inclusive or -nonspecific pronouns take feminine marking and agreement.
Adjectives Agree with Nouns?: Yes.
Where, if at all?: TBD
Honorifics?: Yes.
Dependant on: Species-based caste system for dragons, and elves are treated separately with their own class-based system.
Included How?: Mostly affixes.
Compounds and Derivations Frequency: TBD
Methods of Compounding:TBD
Methods of Derivation:TBD
Purpose of Conlang: Primarily an artlang; secondarily an engelang (I guess). I wanted to create an elvish language that was not influenced as much by Celtic languages, and I wanted to develop it from a dragon language, which I guess would also qualify as an engelang since I wanted to try and look at the physiological limitations on speech that they would have had. This is why Llorkxėla has no labiodentals.
Interesting Features?: Some evidentials are related to fire. In the original Proto-Llorėsan, a jet of fire was a direct evidential, and a puff of smoke was a hearsay evidential. In Llorkxėla, those have become /xo̥/ and /ɸo̥/ respectively.
Problems?: It's currently just a sketch. But my biggest problem is going to be creating something other than Hra'anh. I've spent so much time on that language that it's the only thing running through my head. I'll also have problems working on tone. Well, time to study some native North American languages.



















I started something like this several decades ago... I should pick it up again, for my own writing.