Languages

 I won't bore you with any lengthy
>description of my languages,
Ah now! That won't cut it around here, Elliott. Descriptions (long
and short) of our conlangs is what the list is all about.

   What I meant was just listing them, perhaps description was a bit to
severe a word. Well if you insist:

   1995 Flavin:  My first language. Really just an a priori lexicon with bits
and pieces french and english grammar. I don't remember anything except that
to form the 1st person present tense of a verb you chopp of the first letter
and do a few other strange transformations. Example  caiyar "to be"  aiya "I
am" (or something, whatever)

   1995 A whole gamut of languages supposedly derived from a common language,
though the sound changes were more codelike than actual phonetic changes.
(ie.  /b/ became /t/ blah blah) (what was I thinking!)

   1995-1997 Thousands and Thousands of  what I like to call "tests" (I can't
even remember them)

   1997 Proto-type Silindion, then called Silinestic. Basically a list of
roots that I never even used. There was a declensional system of about 14/15
cases and no literature

   1998 Beginning of Silindion (Then called Silic) I scrapped all but 3 of
the roots from the proto-type, actually derived pretty cool looking words,
and started a dictionary. Now the language has around 1500 words, a huge
literature of over 30 poems, with several dozen waiting to be translated.
This is a very Uralic like language. What I mean of course is that its
agglutinating, though tending now towards a more inflectional feel.

     For an example, I will just talk about the word Nerilyánë
"Green-Partings". This is a compound of neril "green" and yane "partings"
(accents are in a bit of a flux at this point).  Yane is the spoken plural of
yana "going", a participle from the root -ya(N)-. The more elevated, written
and court language uses Nerilyanáña  which is from an ancient form: ...
-yanád-ya  with -ya being a plural morpheme. As you can hopefully see, the
spoken language has discarded the more easily recognizable agglutinative
affix and substituted a less easily analysed inflectional  morpheme.

   Getting back to the list:

   1999 I started to make the Ninneg group of languages, a sort of  Celtic
development of the Silindion roots. The group consists of three languages,
tentatively called North, South and West Nindic/Ninnneg (any help in choosing
a language name would be appreciated, I don't really like the idea of just
calling it "our-language" or something to that effect). North Ninneg is very
Welsh looking, though the sound is probably not, since I haven't got the
opportunity to hear Welsh. West is an even more Welsh looking language (with
a bit of Tolkien's languages).
  An example is:  Ae hi o moniel da gorien es da noichrel
                           "I hear the crows in the tree"
ae      hi o     mon-iel                da   gor-ien                  es  da
   noichrel
be-1st I  at/in hear-(verbal noun) the  crow-plural (s: cêr) in   the
tree

   South Ninneg is very Irish looking and sounding (I'm learning Irish and
Old Irish). The same sentence in South Ninneg is:   Moinis cuire eas á nuir.

  moinis      cuire                 eas           á
                  nuir
   hear-1st   crow-definite      in/inside    the (only after prep. and adj)
    tree

Finally:
2000   I started documenting the languages in the Silindion or Silic group.
This include South and West Silic and Silindion.   Right now West Silic is my
favorite.

 Here's an excerpt from a poem:
  Tilil esi si kiliiä                               Do you see the ships
simummä ’mi  syleeve?                    swan-like on the ocean
Ylistieneä käli nelili                          from western lands
käläseiä t’ oin verre.                         there prows are turned
Nol tyrinnä side lennäde                  to the darkness of the end
ylile lahan emi säheve.                    of days, they ride upon waves

   I wont give details at this point, maybe in another email. Thanks for
reading, and questions would be greatly appreciated.

    Elliott