Re: Works in a Conlang

Quoting Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>:

> I'm considering writing up a grammar of Tháxata in Tháxata.  Has anyone
> else done something like this?  I would imagine so, but I'm interested to hear
> from you.  Tháxata is spoken in a constructed world I'm working on, and its
> speakers would be the most likely to make up such a grammar of any of the
> groups in my world.
The closest I've come is the grammar of Phaleran which I've been
working on in fits and starts for about a year now.  The literary
conceit behind is that it's written by anthropological linguists
on a mission to discover whatever happened to the colonies in the
Upsilon Andromedae system after the collapse of the last great
stellar empire, after which this system, like most others, descended
into a kind of brutal chaos for some centuries, and only now has
the outside economy improved to send trade and scientific missions
like this one.

So, it's technically a translation of some scholarly language
into English _about_ Phaleran, but not from Phaleran itself.
(That's a kinda odd circumstance, since I doubt seriously whether
anyone in this alternate reality has enough proficiency in English
to write something of this length in it. Eh.)

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