Re: Ideographic Conlangs

En réponse à Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...>:

> Hi.
>
Welcome to the list!

> 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.
How does that work?

 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?
>
Check http://earthlanguage.org/, the only project which seems to have a bit of
resemblance to yours. Although EL has a method of phonetic pronunciation, it's
only secondary. And although it's often used to write things in a linear
fashion, it needn't be so.

> 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.
Of course not, since your language is not a spoken one :) .

 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?
>
You should try and find some informations on Sign Languages. They are also
spatial and multi-dimensional in nature and thus fit quite well with your
project.

> I would have liked to post a picture, but I know no place to upload
> to.
>
Do you have a webpage? You could very well upload it there and give us the URL.
If you don't have webspace, my offer's still on (check it at:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0202D&L=conlang&P=R10288),
so just contact me privately if you want to use it (quite a few people are
using it at the moment and they seem quite happy of it ;))) ).

> ----
> Everyone's different, except me. --Noktakanto
>
LOL, me too!

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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