Re: Ideographic Conlangs

Zesefde Nokta Kanto  <red5_2@...> ta 2002.11.22. her 02:38:46 -5h:

> Hi.
>
> I'm new here, I've been looking through the archives a bit.  I've been
> working on an artistic conlang for a while, and mine seems to diverge
> quite
> radically from most of the constructed languages I've found.  It looks
> like most constructed languages start with phonology and grammar. My
> language is entirely written (the language has no associated sounds), is
> made of ideographs, and lays out words on the page according to their
> relationships rather than queueing them with prepositions and
> inflections to mark case. It is (approximately, since words are not in a
> true sequence) a VSO language. So far, I haven't found any conlangs like
> this. Does anyone here know of any similar conlangs?
Hm. In the earliest stage of the Long Wer, my beloved conlang,
it was primarily written, and logographic-ideographic.
This means that I had ideas about the sounding of the most basic words but
when I found a new concept, I just invented a new sign for it or combined
some elder signs.

This was the stage when I wrote my diary in archaic Long Wer and I didn't pronounced
my texts but later as the lang grew together with me, I started to turn Long Wer to a
(gramatically very different) spoken language because I realized that this form looked very
primitive to me.

Archaic (and also Modern) Long Wer are definitely VSO too as I took Egyptian
as a basis of the language.

> The other thing about my language is that I find that 80% of the online
> material about the process of constructing languages does not apply to my
> own language. I'm forging new ground in this process (is that a mixed
> metaphor?). Is there any advice on constructing this kind of language you
> could dispense?
Advice? If you get on well with your language, then you should advise us. (As someone
so wisely said :)
And please do a site of the language. I'm interested and I want to see more of a lang which is
so similar to the one that mine was before.
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Mau
Ábrahám Zsófia alias Mau Rauszer
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