Re: OT: hi

> I think I happened to see a little on the description
> of your conlang, but would you mind expanding?  Mine,
> Vya:a:h, in very simple terms, has a lot of vocab
> cognates to Finno-Ugric & Japanese natlangs with a
> pseudo-Asian (ie, Khmeresque/Hangulesque) script... of
> course, there's more to it than that, but for now that
> will suffice.
>
Ok, I'll tell you some more:
(I should mention that my languages his heavily edited at the moment, and
the changes are many)

Teinvard is the gods tongue, an invented language (invented by the
semi-gods, Teinur) for the humans. During several thousands of years, the
language were static with practically no change at all, thanks to the gods,
but when the great conflict arose, fractions were developed, and quickly
many dialects evolved. The great conflict ended in what's called "The End of
the World", when the creator god, Tein, sent his anger at the world and
threw away the semigods from the planet. After that the civilzation was
non-existent, and new languages quickly evolved from Teinvard. The beaten
humankind collected itself intro tribes, with different dialects of
Teinvard. It took a couple of thousands of years before civilization came
back, in the country of Tulonia. By an act of the gods (people assume), the
complete knowledge of the old language (except the pronounciation, were the
tulonians guessed) got into the hands of the tulonians, and they immideately
tried to spread the knowledge across the world.
Many small tribal languages and dialects vanished when the neo-Teinvard
(also called Tulonian) language spread, but some of them remained, and
started to "interact" with the language, borrowing words and grammatical
rules.

So, now I have an ancient tongue of the gods, a sort of proto-language, and
several languages derived from it, from different periods of it's
development.

Teinvard differs quite much from real languages (it was constructed), and
isn't always so natural for humans. For example, it lacks the use of
pronouns completely, have no irregularities and a minimum of grammatical
rules.

/Martin "RipperDoc

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