Harald Stoiber wrote:
> A warm greeting to the list, :-))
>
> It is said that language is a mirror of its speaker's culture. In fact, this
> sounds so very true to me that I am even creating an entire world for
> my current conlang.
I have a similar idea for my Proto-Mindakh. At some undefined time in
the future :) I hope to have enough to start deriving more localized
cultural languages to populate the conworld I call Mindakh.
Orêlynna is another story. More on that below.
> On the other hand it seems to me that there are
> people on this list who don't create cultures when they create languages.
> So my question to those fellow conlangers would be: Which culture do
> you mirror into your conlangs? Your native one? Another existing culture
> that you deliberately choose? Or some ancient culture? Just curious...
> *smile*
Orêlynna would fall more closely into this category. I am creating it as
a personal language, so it probably reflects my own culture quite a bit.
On the other hand, I also feel free to steer it towards an "ideal"
culture -- according to my own view of course! I actually plan to use it
for musical settings. So it probably won't have words for elves,
dwarves, alien races, etc. It will need enough vocabulary to be poetic
(lots of near-synonyms and more than one way to express a single
thought) with an emphasis on natural phenomena (another of my preferences).
> Another solution to the problem could be to make a culturally neutral
> language - which sounds so extremely impossible that my writing fingers
> keep asking my brain if it really would like to even mention such a
> strange idea. *g*
I'm with Padraic on this one. Yuck!
> So, just another question out of curiosity... yearning for responses. :-)))
>
> All the best,
> Harald
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