Re: me and my languages

Willkümne, Michal und Älfred...

Welcome, Michael and Alfred. It's good to see a Bagpuss appreciator and a PG
Wodehouse fan on the list.

Agewise, I guess I'm about Yellow on the spectrum, being 31. My language,
Jameld, is 19 this month, conceived as it was during September 1982. (My
other languages are dormant projects: Sevorian 1992, Rahha 1997.) Ethnologue
entries follow.

Favourite phrase in Jameld: changes daily - this morning I like the look of
the word for 'sticky tape': »klivbend«.

Robert Hailman eskrë »

> Actually, my birthday is in November. You'd think I'd know that by now.
>
> ObConlang/Conculture: Are the speakers of your conlang inclined to the
> kind of stupidity I've just demonstrated?
The Jameltses find it quite endearing. After all, they have as their
national folk hero Jorthel, the most accident-prone and absentminded knight
that ever was. Harmless, gentle stupidity is regarded as beneficial to a
fully rounded-out character, and in most cases it does not detract from
one's usefulness to society.

---Ethnologitude---

JAMELD [JML] {James Campbell} 21,000 native speakers in Zuraaland (Northern
Alsace), plus about 15 second- or third-language users in Britain,
Galapagos, USA and Norway with limited usage. Indo-European, Germanic,
Anglo-Frisian, Southern Frisian/Jameldic; High German substrate. Dialects:
Üstzur (main literary dialect), Vestzur, Börgeslant. National language.
Typography SVO. Latin script. Christian. Bible portions 1990-94. Alternative
timeline.

SEVORIAN (SIEVRØSKU) [SEV] {James Campbell} Number of speakers unknown:
national language of Sevoria (Sievrih), a small island-state in the Baltic
Sea. Indo-European, Balto-Slavic, North Slavic. Typography VSO. Latin and
Cyrillic scripts. Project dormant.

RAHHA [RAH] {James Campbell} Number of speakers unknown. Location: Earth.
Isolate. Typography SOV. Rahha script (ri-tjal). More study needed.

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James

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