Re: New Guy

Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> David Peterson wrote:
> > I'm not sure about an auxlang which
> > became a normal language...
>
> An early conlang of mine was like that.  It had started as an auxlang
> created to unite the Kiz tribes, and was designed with the grammar of
> those languages in mind, thus complete with mutations and the like, but
> completely regular, and highly agglutinative.  Anyhoo, after several
> centuries, a few changes had occured to somewhat complicate matters.
According to a hypothesis fairly popular among linguists in my SF coniverse,
Primitive Azainic - which is effectively unattested thanks to a series of
major wars over the planets where it must have been spoken, but
reconstructions show to have been suspiciously regular - was either an
outright auxlang, or an artificial regularization of some preexisting
language. At any rate, it, or perhaps its immediate descendants, turned out to
be the language(s) of the peoples carrying out the final wave of interstellar
colonization, resulting in Azainic being the most widely spread language
family in the galaxy (but not the one with the most speakers - much of the
territory is in the outer reaches of the galaxy, where inhabitable planets are
few and widely spaced).

The only Azainic language I've done any much work on is Tersnuvu, and as I
wrote a couple of days ago, that project is currently on hold. I've also
sketched the phonology of Golgák. The differences between them may be
illustrated by the fact that the word "Golgák" is derived from planet-name
_Golgo_, which is etymologically identical to the Tersnuvu planet-name _Jelka_
[j-]. The original meaning appears to've been "stronghold".

                                                             Andreas

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