Re: Conlang Exhibit in 2008 in Cleveland

On 9/21/07, Donald Boozer <donaldboozer@...> wrote:
> I realize this is an early announcement but I wanted
> to share with the group. In my never-ending struggle
> to spread the good news of conlanging, I've been given
This reminds me of a set of books I've been meaning to send
you information on for your conlang bibliography:

Moonfall (1991)
The Children of Atwar (1993)
The Taming (1996)

All by Heather Spears, published by Tesseract Books.

It's a far-future, post-apocalyptic sf trilogy, in which a language
called Riksprok, a descendant of Nynorsk, is spoken in
region where the story takes place.  _The Children of Atwar_
has a long appendix, half as long as the novel, with poems in said
conlang with translations into English, a brief grammar, and
a dictionary.  There are much shorter linguistic appendices
to _Moonfall_ and _The Taming_.

Most of the surviving humans are descended from a set of
dicephalic conjoined twins, and are themselves dicephalic
twins; in consequence the language has developed a dual
number and a dense vocabulary for describing facial expressions.

--
Jim Henry
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