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Re: First Conlang...? (Was Re: some insane West Greenlandic sentences)

From:Robert Jung <robertmjung@...>
Date:Thursday, January 8, 2004, 0:28
On the subject of most langs being European-based or agglutinative: my own experience...

My first lang Kel was a loglang (auxlang at first - but I discarded that idea in
favour of a loglang since auxlanging is no longer at all interesting! - I don't
want to involve myself in all that stupid arguing!!!), and was agglutinative at
first. But as time went by - as I learned more and more about linguistics - it
became isolating, and quite different from its original form... Extremely
different; unintelligible.

I've created four conlangs so far: Kel, Kosi, Mayara, Liru. The last three I've
created very recently - since Kel was completed in November 2003, I've created
the latter three; by then I had learned quite a lot already and still am
learning. Kosi is agglutinative and Mayara and Liru are hard to describe - the
former is noun-only (plus a copula and case etc. suffixes), while the latter is
Mayan-based (mono- and bisyllabic roots with inflections - yeah, inflectional I
guess is the best word to describe it).

My latest conlang - in the process of being started - is polysynthetic. No name yet.

--Robert