Latropeth Revised Grammar and Word Compendium

[Melbcentrix]

Hi all
Finally completed the final foundational
grammar of Latropeth and a word compendium
that gives a glimpse into my point of departure
Neolithic con-culture;
melbcentrix.wordpress.com

Your comments/criticisms are welcome
The language is VSO (but where locations
appear in the predicate generally VOS),
agglutinating with respect to verb morphology
and has an extensive list of special adverbs
that add concepts of modality etc to the
predicate.
The speakers are the human earth deer tribe of a
fictional parallel planet. They will ultimately
move towards a more culturally refined state
structure as they learn to cultivate the starch
of a particularly prolific cycad plant that becomes
the basis of their wealth. At that point things
become more sci-fi like as they explore
hitherto unexplored parts of the planet and find
curious things.
I plan to make it all 3 dimensional ultimately
and like a kind of anthropologist live and breath
an alternative eccentric/creative life through
the prism of my conlang/conculture.
Anyway greetings all from Australia

[Sakir]

Quite a glut of information! After perusing the whole thing (although glossing over several examples), you seem to have a pretty comprehensive grammar of a pretty intuitive agglutinative language. The ironic tragedy being that I don't have much comment to make. For your Class 4,5,6, and 7, what do the various 'classes' of animal mean? Predator vs. prey vs fish vs other? In any case, well done: wish I had a grammar that big, haha.

[Melbcentrix]

Thanks very much for your interest and comments
Sakir. It's been a good few years in
the making now.
The classification
of animals Into noun classes 4/5/6/7
reflects their mythological origin; the Lahu
class animals came from fragments of
the mythical Lahu monster, a fearsome
creature that eventually destroyed itself.
Wunim class animals were created by
the Earth/Deer God and Ijas class animals
(generally fish) by the female consort of the
Sea/Sky God Kuwe. Class 7 includes
animals created by the Sun & Sky/Sea Gods and
the Moon Goddess (Paku,Kuwe and Kula
respectively). I have myths describing all
these events but haven't published them yet.
In the native Latropethian mindset these classes
represent completely separate entities and they
don't have a concept such as <animal>
that would cover them all.