Re: New Language and a Game

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Patrick Dunn wrote:

>I've been screwing around creating an artlang (maybe an auxlang?) for
>purposes of magic.  It's not very sophisticated -- minimal phonetic
>changes, Latin orthography, and a pick-and-choose grammar -- but I'm
>really enjoying it.  Here's a sample:
>
>et-at ejo invoc, o emad agorto:
>et-at, cod'av bar et-a-aret et-a-smai-ce.
>et-at, cod'av bar et-a-jo et-a-dosig-ce
>et-at, cod'av bar et-a-umbra et-a-or-ce
>At e Osorronophris, et-cod nulo hom'av ne-vide la nulo tempo.
>At e Iabas
>At e Iabos
>At'av disinju et-a-balta et-a-agbalta-ce.
>At'av bar et-a-masculo et-a-feminjo-ce.
>At'av bar et-a-seme et-a-pomo-ce.
>At'av bar et-homi la-ta-ehef et-aljaljo va la-ta-odis et-aljaljo.
et- must be the acc. marker on prons., et-a- on nouns (?) perhaps a
definite art.; ejo & at are 1st and 2nd sing. pers, prons; -ce, good
IE conj.; la must be infinitive marker; -ta- perhaps a reciprocal
marker of some sort (?).

>
>Translation:
>
>Thee, I invoke, the bornless spirit
>thee, that didst create the earth and the heavens.
>Thee, that didst create the day and the night.
>Thee, that didst create the darkness and the light.
>Thou art Osorronophris, whom no man has seen at any time.
>Thou art Iabas
>Thou art Iapos.
>Though hast distinguished between the just and the unjust.
>Though has created the male and the female.
>Thou has created the seed and the fruit.
>Thou hast created men to love one another, and to hate one another.
>
>
>This language is made from smashing without rhyme or reason four different
>languages.  Can you identify all four?  That's the game I'm proposing.  I
>think three of them will be easy -- the fourth might be tricky.
I come up with Latin/Romance (obviously), Germanic, Hebrew,
Quenya/Sindarin - these last couple a bit shaky.

Latin/Romance: cod, av, umbra, homi, etc.
Germanic/Quenya: aret (<earth / arda)
Hebrew: Iabas/os, bar (possibly)
Sindarin: dosig (<du)

Several words are currently shaking their fists defiantly: orto, smai,
hef, etc. I can't find anything similar in any of my dictionaries
(Russian, Gaelic, Maori, Hawaiian, Coptic, Greek so far). I don't have
anything on any Semitic languages, so can't pursue anything that way.

Nice puzzle! I might try one myself, so be forwarned. :)

Padraic.

>
>--Patrick
>