Re: Uusisuom language (Online lesson)

Daniel Tammet wrote:

> Uusisuom is a new, auxiliary language designed for
> international usage.
If we exchange "auxlang" for "conlang" and delete "for
international usage", I think it's a nice-looking language.
Well, I think it's nice-looking anyway but you know what
I mean. :)

> Its main influences have been Finnish, Lithuanian and
> Russian. [ ... ]
> Mirko = cat
> Vetta = water
> Uusi = new
> Huppo = bowl
> Jo = and
> Vajen = but
> Lat = milk
> Kavi = coffee
Not knowing much Finnish, I recognize some Finnish cognates
in _vetta_, _uusi_, _jo_ and _kavi_, though it seems that
[t] has become [s] and vice versa. The numbers "one" and
"seven" also seem to stem from Finnish.

It looks very agglutinating and with a nice, "pure"
phonology. It'd be interesting to see where this would
lead from an artlang point of view. I take it _uusisuom_
means something like "new Finnish" - _uusi_ plus _suom_?
It certainly looks like it. It'd be interesting to see if
there are any quirky parts of the grammar that we could
be introduced to.

||| daniel

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