Re: Sleeping dragons and a new lang!

Well I should announce too what I've started working on now.

Premise: around the late 10th, early 11th centuries, a group of Magyars
left the Carpathian basin and went south through Greece, East through
Turkey and Iran, then turning around and heading west through Arabia, then
looping around north and ending up in the Caucasus a few centuries
later. The Mogra now live in the Caucasus somewhere along the Black Sea.

The language is written in Cyrillic (surprised?). For the basics of it I'm
analysing the Halotti Beszed, the Old Hungarian funeral speech dating to
the late 11th or early 12th century, and filling blanks with data from
Khanty and Mansi. I'll be adding, as it gets more developed, influences
from Greek (probably a lot of words dealing with philosophy, government,
and medicine), old Turkic, Arabic (was that there in the 13th century?),
plus Georgian, Armenian, Azeri, and Russian for modern terms.

I know this musch so far. It is agglutinative with the following
cases: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Causative, Comitative, Inessive,
Ablative (which also functions as Partitive), Superessive, Delative,
Elative, Illative, Sublative, Allative and Adessive. And the verbs are in
simple present, simple past, perfect (the old Hungarian "verb +
vala"), future, present continuative, past continuative, conditional,
imperative.

This is all I can say for now...

----ferko
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, J Y S Czhang wrote:

> In a message dated 2002.03.06 06.32.23 AM, litrex1@YAHOO.COM writes:
>
> >Also, I have the beginnings of a new conlang!  I call
> >it Kropja, which is short for -Cro-atian, -P-olish,
> >and -Y-iddish, the "flavors", the inspirations, of the
> >lang.
>
>     ::cheeky grin:: a Klezmer ConLang!!!
>
> >All I know is that it will inflect fairly
> >heavily and that I have the phonology and orthography
> >down.  BTW a word can begin with "zz"!
>
>     ::ears prick up at that::  That fact alone makes this seem intriguin'!
> I used to hate "odd" consonant clusters, but I have begun to like certain
> ones due to this list, hehe... Ferinstance, I seem to have a lotta
> fricative/sibilant consonant clusters cropping up in Lego (my ConArtAuxLang
> ;) (And, hehe, you thought English was a "hissing tongue"...eh?)
>
> >  It's the sound
> >/Z/--my "z" acts like the Polish z and the English h
> >in digraphs.  I won't start serious work on this,
> >though, until I get Kayasanoda on the web and I can
> >install the word generator I downloaded onto someone's
> >computer.
>
>
> ~§~
> _LILA_ <from Sanskrit> = "Divine Play"  - the 'joyous exercise of spontaneity
> involved in the art of creation' (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)
> ...the play of creation, destruction, and re-creation, the folding and
> unfolding of the cosmos...both the delight and enjoyment of this moment, and
> the play of [the] God[head] ("the universe is what happens when God wants to
> play").
>
> _Spielraum_ <from German> = free scope to experiment with things & ideas; to
> toy with ideas; room to play in
>
>     WHIM = 1a. a sudden fancy; a caprice. b. capriciousness. 2. a kind of
> windlass for raising ore or water from a mine. [17th century: origin unknown]
>     WHIMSY (plural forms: WHIMSIES, WHIMSEYS) = 1. a whim; a capricious
> notion or fancy. 2. capricious or quaint humour. [related to WHIM-WHAM
> ]/Italian _capriccio_, French _boutade_
>     WHIM-WHAM = a toy or plaything
>

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