Larimin

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Conlang	Larimin
Author	Olga Laedel
Year Began	1993
Language Type - by purpose - by source	fictional conlang a priori conlang
Typology - morphology - word order	agglutinating SVO
Lexicon Size	1735
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Primer	No

Larimin is a language of unisexual feminine humanoid civilization of the planet called Atea. Larimin was created by Olga Laedel as a part of her utopia about Atean Civilization. The web-page is in Russian.

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Main design principles and features

Regularity and consistency of grammar rules and principles. Euphony.

Agglutinative structure of the language and wide use of affixation for word-formation.

Boundaries of morphemes are always unambiguously expressed due to rules of possible combinations of vowels and consonants in a morpheme.

Almost all morphemes have lexical meanings and can be used in word derivation and inflection both as affixes and as roots. The few non-lexical morphemes (these are connecting vowels and word endings) have syntactical but not lexical meanings.

Type of syntactic bond of morphemes in a compound word are always expressed by connecting vowels. Each word always has an ending denoting the part of speech the word belongs to and the syntactic role of the word in a sentence.

Free grammar. This means potentially unlimited variety of grammemes and forms of word (such as cases, numbers, tenses, aspects, moods, and so on) and freedom to express or not to express these grammatical categories in speech.

Phonetic writing and an alphabet where each letter symbolically expresses the phonetic nature and main features of the phoneme denoted by this letter.

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