Re: i gots uh kwesteon

--- "<Wilhelm Ulrich Schlaier>"
<SMITHV637@...> wrote:

> i was wondering what lang. family ya'll think
> my conlang comes from?
Well, gramatically, it's English; so it's a
Germanic language of the Indo-European family. I
think this is called a relex (?), and is a fairly
common thing to do early in one's conlanging
career.

One of my early (written) nonglossolalic conlangs
(from about 4th grade) consisted largely of
replacing S by F, using some Greek and Cyrillic
letters and putting umlauts on random vowels.
Pretty lame!

Here's is the textual corpus, consisting of a
veritable Rosetta Stone (fancy way of saying the
same thing is written in three different
(languages"!):

1. This is page 9
2. Indiza ist pagê nien.
3. Distül ist pagê nien.

1. And it is!
2. Nasod ist!
3. Und ift ist!

At least there's some confiftenciê!

Another example, of a more glossolalic bent:

1. 2 parts Hydrogen 1 part oxygen, That is water.
2. Schunala Glaeoombala Nimblæ Nu
3. Ore la u dear Helemna Wiæhisseh SieSo

Lexically, there seems to be some obvious
transformations of English words [dee = the,
which happens in some English dialects as well].
Some words sound vaguely Scandinavian [isk,
hollm, sagon]. However, some defy obvious
connections [unawba, anaya - both of which I like
the sound of].

> isk ekwih deriy dee kreetoll    ops  goethea
> i   is    from  the grey-island near goethia
> omt dee eeth le dee marezhlitsvep
> and the land of the horse-lords(.)
> isk bee'eenk enin dee hollm le tsvalhalmp
> i   live     in   the city  of tsvalholm(.)
> ya unawba ekwih de grossagon
> my father is a  great-warrior
> omt ya anaya  ekwih de grosfirntishtoo
> and my mother is    a  great-tree-wizardess
> le dee etirnevp
> of the elves(.)
It has some interesting extra bits that are not
typical of Enlgish, like the gramaticalisation of
punctuation ["." = -p], which is actually pretty
clever.

What are your thoughts? You came up with it after
all!

Padraic.


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