Re: Hello to you all!

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:36:16 +0200, Y.Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:

>>There is six of them now: one family
>> of three (North-)Slavonic languages,
>
>North-Slavonic? VERY interesting! (Since in THIS reality there are only
>West-, East- and South-). Since my L1 is Russian, and my wife's L1 is
>Ukrainian (that's the language we speak at home now), and I learnt bits of
>other Slavic langs, I'm SOOO eager to have a look at your products!
Shalom to you, too!

I got your point. My fiancée is from Lviv, but her L1 is Russian; Ukrainian
is a language she doesn't like too much. At home we speak Polish, so our
six weeks old daughter is on her way to become trilingual if we don't
abandon at least one language.

Is North-Slavonic interesting? It just seemed sort of inevitable to me. I
mean, if God created South-, West- and East-Slavonic languages, He just
asked for it! (By the way, I'm curious if, for the same reason, someone
ever created a South-Germanic language). I was thrilled when I discovered
the existence of other North-Slavonic conlangs: Seversk and Slavëni (by
Libor Sztemon), Sevorian (by James Campbell), and Našica (by Jan Havliš).
Unfortunately, most of the seem to have vanished from the net.

All my languages are situated in a fictional republic in Russia, the
Vozgian A.S.S.R. Somewhere at the beginning I had the idea of writing a
political story against that background, and I don't even remember what
came first: the languages or the (never realized, of course) idea for the
story.
For the time being, they are not very developed yet; only 300-500 words and
a raw outline for a grammar. Currently I am rebuilding all three of them
(and "killed" a fourth one that just didn't want to become nice). I am
still not entirely happy with what I made until now. Nevertheless, I hope I
will soon be able to present some samples or other stuff that is at least
sort of finished, and maybe one day I will create a web page.

Jan

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