t-shirt phrase in Yivríndil

> >To-lupa-wa             ru-kelta       par-il
> >IMP-fight-habit.V   anti-creation  language-ADJ
> >
> >to-kelta-wa                 par
> >IMP-create-habit.V  [a] language.
> >
> >I had to coin a word for "extinction," and the word I coined,
> >"anti-creation" unintentionally forms a neat antithesis with the
word
> >"create" in the next phrase :-).  It's neat.
>
>     Nice-ness, indeed neat. I like that a lot... the semantic
transparency...
> BTW, what languages is Yivríndil influenced by? Tell us more about
your
> ConLang!!!
>
>     czHANg
(BTW, {w} in the above transcriptions is [B]--an important point)

Yivríndil is influenced by whatever languages happen to be floating
through my head at the moment ;-).  Some of my *general* tastes have
been influenced by Hawaiian, Finnish, or Spanish, but the language I
wanted to create was more wild and exotic than any of those.  The only
natlangs that I've ever seen that really seemed like Yivríndil were
little-known PNG languages with sharp, exciting consonant combinations
and lots of vowels.

Yes, semantic transparency (or at least translucency) is one of the
major features of Yivríndil, since the existing vocabulary is very small
and I like to get as far as I can without having to coin totally new
words.  I imagine that the *entire* vocabulary is rather small but it
augmented by a large agglutinative inflectional morphology and
considerable derivational morphology.  In general terms, Yivríndil is an
SVO, highly agglutinative language with a few noun cases, lots and lots
of verbal variations, pro-drop (but no agreement!), and relatively
sparse phonology.  Yivríndil has been "almost complete" for quite some
time now, but every once in a while I take it out and overhaul some area
that I never quite liked. . . so it's always a work in progress.

Further updates as events warrant!  Laiya!  (Yivríndil farewell)

Jesse S. Bangs  jaspax@u.washington.edu