Re: Personal Introduction

Anthony M. Miles wrote:
>
> My name is Anthony. I am twenty-three and have been conlanging on and off
> for ten years. I prefer language families to isolates, although I tend not
> to have long wordlists of more than one of them. I also can't resist
> fiddling. My current conlang family is called the 'Gweinic' family and is
> spoken on a flat world ringed by mountains by 'people' born straight from
> the earth. The ancestor of the Gweinic language family is Gweinic, spoken by
> the ice people and therefore possessing words such as [beraddhalej] 'an
> angle between 18 and 36 degrees viewed
> from directly ahead/behind'. Gweinic became Early Lahabic and Early Maradic
> on two of the islands after the great melt and transmigration of souls.
> Early Lahabic split into Classical Labic and Wouenic for political reasons
> which I may go into in conculture. Early Maradic became Classical Maradic.
> Both Classical languages have considerable borrowed vocabulary, and there is
> a marine pidgin which produces a creole called Todanic.
Hi and welcome.  I see you can now post, hmm? :)
Tell us more about this family -- what are the languages like?
Isolating, polysynthetic, VSO, VOS, etc etc?
As an aside, I'm always so jealous of people who do entire language
families.  I don't have the attention span to do that.  Or the time.
But I would love to have a real family, with a proto-language, and a
classical language, and the modern language, and this that and the
other.  Maybe the summer...nah, I have too many other ambitious projects
to find time any time soon.  Oh well.

Nicole

PS -- For those on the list who aren't participating, the relay was
kicked off last night!