Re: My New Project: Chromic

Siyo! (That's howdy in my conlang, Kayasanoda)
Someone's bound to ask you this, but were you in the
group a month or so back when we were talking about
color in writing?  There was quite a string on it.

Dana (That means see ya.)
Clint


--- Ian Maxwell <Ian_Maxwell@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, I never introduced myself properly to
> this list. I'm a college
> freshman in Lowell, MA, majoring in CS, but
> considering switching schools so
> that I can major in linguistics, since I seem to
> have developed a greater
> interest in it than I've ever had in computers.
> Spending all my time on the
> computer, it turns out, does not necessarily imply
> that I'm interested in its
> inner workings.
>
> I've been working on and off on two separate
> projects. My first, Zhoa-Tongue
> (the literal translation of the name), is a language
> extremely heavy on
> inflection, yet without any grammaticalized number
> or tense. It's meant to be a
> priori, so I'm combining characteristics that are
> not combined in any natlangs
> that I know of. My second, Vampyral (a.k.a. Yet
> Another Vampire Language), has
> an extremely strange phonolology in that my vampyr
> have no lower lip. Their
> bilabials have become linguolabials, and their
> labiodentals have become
> dentolabials (again, no natlang has these--lower
> teeth, upper lip).
>
> Anyway, I'm putting those on hold because my newest
> project is actually going to
> be used for something. For purposes of a
> collaborator's short story, I'm
> creating a language with an orthographical system
> that implements color. I've
> given it the provisional name Chromic, until the
> story and language are
> developed enough to give it a proper name.
>
> I have the orthography pretty much figured out,
> although I may make changes. The
> really interesting thing is that, using ten letter
> shapes (P, F, T, S, K, Q, H,
> macron, en-dash, underscore), I have a total of 55
> phonemes.
>
> Anyway, as soon as I have more of this language
> hashed out, I'll be posting an
> outline on my website. My outlines are generally
> meant for my own benefit rather
> than that of others, so it won't necessarily be easy
> to follow, but lessons may
> come eventually.
>
> - Ian Maxwell
>
> ---------------
> "The problem with defending the purity of the
> English language is that English
> is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just
> borrow words; on occasion,
> English has pursued other languages down alleyways
> to beat them unconscious and
> rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James D.
Nicoll


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