Re: Uber newbie-conlanger conlang

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From: Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:47:37 -0500
Subject: Re:      Uber newbie-conlanger conlang
To: saizai@saizai.com


I think Sally's response says it all. LOL

I did devise, early on, a "naming language" for interplanetary adventures
that involved spellng things backwards-- Regor Sllim, Doowgad Daetsmub, and
Otamot Puos come to mind; and an Engl. "code" that switched the vowels
around, and the consonants, so it was still pronounceable, but those never
got past the play stage.

My first usable conlang (#2) was basically 1st-year Latin with lots of
a-priori vocab. and verb/case endings.
--The nominative was -ud; the dative was -ainigi; vocative was -o; that's
all I remember, but there was genitive, acc., abl. too.
--bhlithé was 'I am', bhlishu '3s is' but most verbs IIRC were regular.
There may not have been a subjunctive-- that wasn't covered in my 1st year
course, though I knew about it from reading my mother's old college grammar.
--Adjectives weren't declined, and ended in -ane.
--I considered the lack of "and" a very radical feature.
--The phonology was a hash; there was a mixed syllabary/alphabet of sorts,
but it was incomplete, so some sequences of sounds simply didn't/couldn't
occur. That dative ending for ex. was a single symbol....
--Pity it got lost, actually. There were lots of texts.

By the time I got around to Kash, ~25 years later, I was tainted by grad.
school and Indonesian linguistics. Kash has lots of Indonesian-y features,
though it's hardly a relex. (IMO)

I'm fearful Gwr may become a clone of Chinese or Vietnamese-- but since I
know next to nothing about those languages, it will all be impressionistic.