Re: Non-spoken colangs?

 --- Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> wrote: > I'm
curious to know whether anyone here has experimented with how
> language
> might develop, and what its "grammr" might be for an isolated race
> which is
> deaf.
>
Well, this isn't quite what you're asking about, but I have a sketch
for the development of a purely written language.  It developed out of
symbols used for mapmaking in a society that didn't yet have a written
language, and passed through several distinct stages, eventually
becoming a complete language, with different grammar and syntax than
that of the spoken language of the society.  It was, of course, only
ever a second language.  More information on request; I really only
have the outline of its development yet, not any actual content besides
a little of the first stage.

Estel

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