Re: CHAT: Conlang and Writers

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:12:48 -0600 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Sally Caves wrote:
>> I could only manage one!  If the Teonim have neighbors, their
>languagewill
>> have to be pretty superficial.  I'm persistent when it comes to
>> sticking with one beloved conlang.
>No problem with that, I've created "languages" that only consist of a
>couple of words, and one or two derivative suffixes, purely for the
>purpose of word-borrowings, such as "tigladi'z", lady, which comes
>from,
>I forget the name of the lang, "ghla"rijh" (/Gl&'riJ/ - J = palatal
>fric).  Ti- in the W. is a gender prefix.  I can't remember exactly
>what
>each part meant, it was a compound noun.
>...........
In my sophomore year of highschool, i had to write a short horror story
for English class.  The unfinished _Blood Vengeance_ ended up being about
10 pages long before i just threw together a new story to fit my
teacher's 3-page maximum expectations.
It included two phrases in the "Mother Language", which was spoken in
prehistoric times by the two sibling-specieses of Humans and Daemons
(daemon = ['dejm@n]), before the Great Betrayal when the Daemons went
into hiding.
The first phrase was a name, "agha'shu" ['aGa Su], meaning
"monster-destroyer".  It's the name of Diana the Hunter's dagger.  "agha"
was probably the "monster" part of the compound.
The second phrase was also a name, "pleknu gamna-zoh" ['plEknu 'gamna
zA<rounded>], meaning "those who fell from stars"
plek = some kind of form of a root for "fall"
-nu = "doer" noun suffix, past tense
gamna = stars
zoh = case-ending meaning "from".

"plek" and "gamna" ( >> gamnuh [gamnV] ) were incorporated into
Rokbeigalmki.

"Those who Fell from Stars" is the name that the Humans and Daemons gave
to the alien race (who look like stereotypical "gray" aliens) who caused
the tragedy of the Great Betrayal when they tried to enslave Earth.
Daemons look more feral than Humans, and have greater physical strength.

The Daemons in the story had cool names, like "Chi'tza'kh" [tSi tsa
x<syllabic>] and "Sthr'kha" ['sTr xa], with syllabic /s/, /T/, and flap
/r/.  The story took place in Burup 'Ak ['burUp ?ak] (Boro Park) in a
post-apocalyptic future.  The Human characters spoke a language called
"Nyeglish" ['njEglIS] (New York English), which didn't have any examples
in the text.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "hhalomot zeh b'emet"

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