Re: Introductory Post

Katva Kallah:

> New member
Makdamo be kheyro, salaamaleykom! Most heartly welcome!
And, as Jan already said, come to the West Asian Conlang workshop too!

> currently working on a very loosely Semitic
> language for a novel.
What's the background?

> It uses the tri-consonantal roots (with
> occasional two and four-consonant roots), and a pattern system (still
> incomplete). However, the triangularity common to semitic languages
> isn't really present (largely because I found out how it worked, more
> or less, well after I'd gotten the basics of the language where I
> liked them). Word patterns are generally C V or V C, with common C V V
> patterns.
Gee, i'm really confused. You meant "syllable patterns", not "word
patterns", didn't you? Otherwise i can't ever see three-consonantal root in
CVV. And what do you mean by "triangularity"?

> n'Deren (current working name) is a verb-subject-object language, with
> a singular, dual, and plural.
Good. Till this point it seems quite Semitic.

> It has markers for complete/incomplete
> and tense (present, past, future), and a particular set of verb/phrase
> to indicate whether the action has or has not been completed, and
> whether that is a desired result. ('mâ'â yáîna' would indicated that
> the action in the immediately preceding verb has not been completed
> and is not desired to be completed. 'yáîna' alone would indicate that
> the action has not been completed and is desired to be completed).
Nice features. What's their origin?

> (á=/aw/ in caught, â=/ah/ in father, î=/ee/ as in feed, a as in cat.)
It would be nice if you could use ASCII-friendly IPA representation, see
http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif
or visit http://www.conlanglinks.tk/ and have a look at the Phonetics
Section.

> It uses an extensive system of both infixes and personal pronouns, the
> use of which is largely determined by relative social standing of the
> people conversing; pronouns are used in reference to higher-status
> people, infixes in reference to lower-status or among friends.
> Pronouns are also used in combination with infixes for emphasis: "I, I
> caught the gelfling!"
Ah, social rank! Smells like Japanese... Nice idea!
Shaw us examples of all you've mentioned!

> Otherwise, I'm currently interested in old Germanic languages,
> Byzantine Latin,
Then this is indeed a nice place for you. Warning: CONLANG List is a
strongly addictive drug!

> and Japanese old and modern.
Now I see the origin of at least this particular idea!

>  Kallah
Tell us a few words more about yourself. And
why do you have such a nickname?

Yitzik the Curious Watching Snakie
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...who experienced the same problem as Christophe...