Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

Adam Parrish wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>> Here's a suggestion: someone could come up with the rudimentary form of
>> a conlang (phonology, basic morphology, including any inflections, some
>> basic grammar), and "put it up for adoption", so to speak.  It would be
>> interesting to see how different people would flesh out this skeleton
>> language.
>>
>        Kind of like a round-robin conlang?  That's a neat idea, actually.
>One person could come up with the phonology, another the morphology,
>others lexicon and so forth.  Heh . . . yes, I agree, this would be rather
>interesting.  Easy to do via e-mail too.  Anyone want to try out this
>idea?
I'm in. I think we should do some brainstorming about general features of
the language before, so that we can stick to them later -- we could make
a mess out of this!

For my part, this is my basic idea:

* Phonology: stops /p/ /t/ /tj/ /k/ /q/ and voiced; frics /f/ /s/ /S/ /x/ and
voiced; nasals /m/ /n/ /nj/ /N/; others /l/ /lj/ /r/ /w/ /j/. Vowels /i/ /e/
/a/ /o/ /u/, perhaps also oe-ligature and /y/, and also unrounded back vowels
(I love unrounded /u/'s :)

* Syllable structure: CV*, where * = a nasal (assimilated to next place of
articulation), or /l/, or /r/, or a fricative more or less appropriate to
the next place of articulation, or another vowel.

* Grammar: agglutinating to inflecting, not polysynthetic. Heavily inflected
verbs, but not for tense or person but maybe voice and some aspects. A classic
case system (nominative, accusative, dative, ablative, allative) and postpositions.
Some "attitude particles" to colour the sentences.

Has anybody thought about the conculture? Not that we have to invent it, but
there should be a background.


--Pablo Flores

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 Rrakel thdn qgastel b{rth merul|n. Tbrrakel thdn naias
 addunil merul|n. Qatbrrakel anrrinvain qgemp qrevnen.

 "It is important to speak with beautiful words. More important is
  to speak with wisdom and prudence. The most important of all is
  to know when to be silent."

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