Re: sorry Mark Lang...

SC> One brain fart after the other.  Mark, Line, Reed, P. J., whatever!  At any
SC> rate, it's a great day outside!  Let's all go enjoy it!
SC> The apology still stands!

Heh heh heh.  Well, I already posted that I'll be adopting the sobriquet
"Marcos", but as to your questions about my conlangs:

So far I have Okaikiar (http://threeds.org/~mark/conlang/okaikiar, although I
think that's slightly out of date), Methkaeki, and Rozhuth.  Okaikiar and
Rozhuth have well-developed native writing systems, while Methkaeki so
far exists only in Romanization.  However, Rozuth grew out of the
same ideas as Methkaeki, so they're grammatically very similar;
I created R. on a business trip when I was stuck in the hotel room with
time to kill and no Internet access.

None of them is terribly interesting, I'm afraid.  Okaikiar is a
highly-inflected language with many cases; the other two are
agglutinating.  Boring SOV order.  Okaikiar's most distinctive feature
is probably its relative poverty of consonant phonemes, although the
spatial/temporal marker is also perhaps noteworthy.  I am quite
proud of its writing system, however original it is or isn't. :)

I'm also fond of Rozhuth's script, too, actually, although it's not
available online yet.  It's a backwards abugida - the bare consonant
implies a tagalong vowel, but the syllable so reprsented is VC rather
than CV, so the symbol for /b/ represents the syllable /ab/ (unless
marked with a different vowel or the no-vowel mark).  It actually
developed that way organically; it started out as a normal abjad, but
putting the vowels on the following rather than preceding consonant fit
the syllable structure better, and /a/ was far and away the most
frequent vowel and I quickly got tired of writing it, so I dropped the
symbol for it. :)

I have also been reading up on the history of the Romance languages to
get up to speed on how they work, so I can develop a plausible new one
as a stepping stone toward my ultimate goal of doing the same thing
starting from PIE instaed of Latin.  That is, I wish to create a
language that is identifiably IE, yet not part of any of the already known
subfamilies.

-Marcos

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