Re: visual languages

Staving J Y S Czhang:
>In a message dated 2003:12:03 10:26:38 PM, estel_telcontar@YAHOO.CA writes:
>
> >I've toyed areound with visual conlangs, but none has gotten very far
> >yet.  I'm sure, however, that you could do some neat stuff with the
> >grammar - add some interesting non-linearity to it.
>
>     IIRC Star Trek's Borg language is pictographic based on a "binary"
>grammar. I forgot where I saw it... I think on the web somewhere...
>
>     Most sign languages are quite time-&-space biased with basic grammars
>quite similar to creoles.
I have heard that British Sign Language has a topic-comment grammar.
Regions of space can be designated as pronouns. Here's an example, using
<angle brackets> to indicate a sign.

<region1> <cat>
<region2> <mat>
<region1> <sit> <region2>

"The cat sat on the mat".

Pete