Re: OT: Asking for help

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Sai Emrys wrote:
> I guess that asks a fundamental question, then - what *do* you want
> the language to sound like? And do you want it to be human-usable?
I guess the human-usable Zireen languages could be considered as a sort
of "translation" of how they actually speak. Since the world where they
live is remote from here and there aren't any humans living there, the
Zireen and their relatives are one of the two groups analogous to humans
(the other group being the elf-like people).

>> Signed languages are interesting, but writing becomes a problem. I'm
>> sure there must be signed languages, but I've got enough to keep me busy
>> with just the vocal languages.
>
> Take a look at David Peterson's "sign language IPA" (SLIPA).
I've seen it. It seems a bit easier than some of the other systems, if
only because it uses letters of the alphabet, but I don't know enough
about how sign languages are put together, and haven't had enough
interest to actually start designing one. Keeping track of words with
the search feature in a word processor, or doing a simple search and
replace operation if you change a word, would still be a mess.