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Re: CHAT: Conlang and Writers

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, March 12, 1999, 23:12
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. I think that ghl- meant "all", -a = "above", and -rijh meant "ruler". I just noticed a similarity between "rijh" and "rex" - subconcious influence, maybe? There may be a few other borrowings from this mysterious language (I may have to change the word, since I've decided that the Faithful Ones had never been conquered at this stage of their language, it seems unlikely that a title woud be borrowed from a language except thru conquest), so I went thru the trouble of a phonology and orthography.