Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang
From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
Date: | Thursday, November 13, 2003, 16:20 |
JS Bangs wrote:
>So I'd like to get a collection of the word or phrase for "language
creation" in a variety of conlangs, so I can combine them into a nice
graphic to use as a header.
>
> 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.
OK. Kash would be _ahatende_ ["axa'tEnde] a verb-noun compd., actually a
rather rare construction.
ahan-sende
create language
I immediately thought it would be _añahañi sende_, a noun-noun genitive
construction--
añ- ahan- ni sende
NOMLZ.-create-POSS. language--
but then I remembered I went to great lengths in the Syntax to say that
there is no "objective genitive" in Kash, so this could only imply
'*language create(d) [something]', clearly nonsense. Alas, no native script
available until I get a working scanner and BUY a working version of Font
Creator Program, and redo the whole thing. Ugh.