Re: Delurking...

Hi all! I've been on-and-off-lurking for a while now, but I guess I should
eventually start participating, too. Maybe now's the time...

I'm a 20-year-old chemistry student from Finland. My language interest took
off about a year ago, probably initiated by a long-winded email
correspondence with a friend with a conlang - during which I learned much
new, eg the existence of /I O v/... I've gone a long way since then, but
during the journey I have only realized how little I yet know :)

As for my conlang(s)? I believe I come from a background different from many
of you; I have no linguistic background at all (everything I know I've
learned online), nor concultures or other works of fiction to go alongside.
So. You all have probably created various "secret alphabets" as kids? You
know, thinking up replacement symbols for the Latin letters and punctuation
(and using them to write secret messages.) I've in the past created lots of
them, too. Then, back in 9th grade, I created one which was not just an
one-to-one replacement. I threw away a bunch of redundant or unwanted
letters (eg. b c x) and put in some I deemed more useful (eg. /D N S/). It
kind of took off from there... I added more "weird" sounds, my own variety
of redundant letters (eg. pl, kw, oa, ie) and the like. Eventually I started
to clean the system up a little, and like I said, about a year ago, I though
that I might as well make a language to go with it.

This language has, strictly speaking, no name so far, but its project handle
(which doesn't yet mean anything...) is "uwjge". (/u\UM\gE/) I've got
shape-vise estabilished letters, a phonology under constant tinkering,
various grammatical ideas, and almost no vocabulary at all - but as I see
it, I'm only starting out, and I'm trying to do this "right" the first time.
:)
Uwjge is also intended to be my introduction to language creation. I've got
a few artlang ideas in the queue - one is an entirely non-pulmonic language,
the other an entirely unvoiced one... I can "fluently babble" both of them,
but I'd certainly like to make them into languages some day.

I *do* have a load of questions, too, but I'm not going to pour them on you
right now...

Any replies are welcome!

John Vertical

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