Re: Introducing the Wakat language

1. Your web pages on Wakat are a pleasure to read. They are nicely
laid out and well written.
2. Your reply-to is set to your own mail address, which may or may
not cause confusion.
3. More comments on your language may follow if I have actually read
something ...

Cheers,

Christian

>It's been a long while since I've posted to the list, though I still lurk. For
>those who have forgotten, my name is Rik and I have two conlangs: Gevey
>(which I've been working on for decades); and Wakat - a relatively young
>conlang no more than 2 years old.
>
>Anyway, I've been busy over the past few weeks getting the Wakat website into
>a state fit for viewing and critiquing. The basic work is done, but there's
>still tons to add, like example translations, perhaps some lessons, plenty of
>little details, etc.
>
>To get people interested enough to visit the website, here's a dozen facts
>about the language to get mouths watering ...
>
>1. Wakat is a reconstructed language - its developers in my conworld (the
>Nakap philosophers) are in search of the "perfect language", the language
>that they believe was spoken by all people at the beginning of time.
>
>2. The grammar presented on the website is more of a metaphorical grammar
>rather than an analytical one.
>
>3. The language has 10 vowels (with no dipthongs) and 27 consonants.
>
>4. The language has 3 native scripts, including a logographic script.
>
>5. My romanisation of the written language is a little bit different from the
>norm.
>
>6. Consonant voicing is a grammatical as well as a phonological feature of the
>language.
>
>7. Wakat is an active-dative language, with a fairly strict SVO word order.
>
>8. It is also highly polysynthetic, with agent incorporation into the verb.
>
>9. Almost all words are derived from core concept rootwords - the derivation
>models can be a little bit frightening, but apparently make sense to the
>philosophers who developed the language.
>
>10. There are five object classes, and five object numbers.
>
>11. Counting is base-8, and small numbers cliticise onto their object.
>
>12. the language only has two formal tenses, but compensates with a rich array
>of aspects and moods.
>
>You can visit the Wakat website at: www.rikweb.co.uk/kalieda/wakat
>
>The next thing for me to do is some translation exercises and lexical
>development. I'm looking for a set of example sentences, where the sentences
>go from the simple to more complex as you move through the list - I know it
>exists, but I can't seem to locate it on the web. Pointers to that list would
>be gratefully received!
>
>Finally, comments and crits on how to improve the website (and language) are
>always - always - welcome!
>
>Rik

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