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Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, November 13, 2003, 10:43
Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:

> Quoting JS Bangs <jaspax@...>: > > > > So if you'd like to have your conlang included, just mail the list with a > > translation of the phrase "language creation", as a compound if possible, > > and I'll try to include it. I don't want to image to get over-busy, so I > > don't promise that I'll be able to include everything I receive, but I'll > > try to get most of them. > > I've repeatedly used _laistsazent_ as a Tairezazh translation of "language > creation", altho I still don't know if there's any Tairezan conlangers using > it! > > Another possibility is _laistslaint_, which emphasizes the creative, > artistic > element; _laistsazent_ has more engineerish connotations. I guess the later > is > the more fitting term for Lojban, the former the more fitting for Teonaht.
The Steienzh cognates of these would be _laissezenn_ and _ laisselejenn_. But these forms could only be ancient compounds, and I doubt such forms would see enough use to remain in living usuage. Modern Steienzh coinages would be analytic; _zazenn/zalejenn ke laisten_ "construction/creation of languages". Can't off-hand say what we'd get in the other Klaishic languages. Telenzh might have _lest-zelànt_, but I'll have to look a littel more on its treatment of compounds for I can tell for sure. _Zazente lestens_ should work in Searixina (AKA Tsárizh), but that's of course no compound; it's simply an gerundial phrase "constructing languages". None of my other conlangs appear to be up to the task ATM. I've never been good at creating vocabulary. But hey, _geaseomas_ "word-creating" should word in Meghean! Especially as Meghean tends to use _gean_ "words" synecdochically for "language". This means you're all _geaseomearan_; from now on, you've all got the right to wear a little badge reading _seeo geaseomear_! :) Andreas PS Which, of course, means "I am a word-creator". Pronuciation; [Se'jo ,dZa'Somjar]. _Gea-seomear-an_ is of course pl "word-creator-s".