Re: Is isolated languages better for Auxlangs?

From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>

> Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:
> > I think Ancient Troll would make the best auxlang, and it's pretty well
> > isolated.
>
> Does this conlang actually exist?
>
> Reminds me, at any rate, of Danny Wier's LANKA project. It managed to
attract me
> despite being written in ALL CAPS, so it must be good.
I never really got much done on that project; been focusing on Tech and
microtonal music compositions so much lately. Maybe I'll get to work on it
soon...

I've decided to replace the all-caps Latin alphabet with a simplified
derivation of Latin and Greek, also single-case. It may, however, be a
featural alphabet based on Hangul, but with a smaller phonology more like
Japanese. I had fifteen consonants and five vowels, but I might remove /h/
and /r/, so 'America' could be known as 'Amelika'. (I once considered
inventing a conlang with six consonants and three vowels, but it never went
anywhere. I'm no minimalist.)

But since the Ogres (which are also known as Orcs, Trolls or Ghouls) are an
ugly, savage bunch, I don't want their language or culture to resemble that
of any particular ethnicity, for obvious reasons. I'm mixing everything
together, therefore its six-language basis.

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