Re: Introduction, and a Couple Questions

Salutations, and welcome to the (speaking part of the) list. :-)

On Jan 27, 2008 9:50 AM, Parker Glynn-Adey <parkerglynnadey@...> wrote:
>    -Why do most people start their work on a language with their phonology?
Simply, because it allows people to start making words.

The usual route is approx: phonetics -> phonology -> phonotactics ->
nonce words -> morphology -> syntax -> pragmatics. And orthography
somewhere in parallel.

>    -Does anyone know of conlangs that use cuneiform as their native written
> medium? I'm considering this for my current project, and would like to see
> some of the exploratory work done in this directions.
Depending what you mean by cuneiform, yes. Take a look at omniglot.com
(that's where I'd look to answer the question, since I don't remember
which ones offhand).

>    -I notice that a lot of people have conlangs that take the form of pretty
> PDF files, is anyone here a LaTeX user?
Several are (though not I). If you need LaTeX help, say so and you'll get it. :)

- Sai

P.S. I <3 ASL also. You may like to look up David Peterson's SLIPA and
signed conlang on dedalvs.free.fr. And if you haven't yet, go read
_Signs of Language_ 1 & 2 by Klima & Bellugi right now.

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