[]: An unspoken language.
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? Yaali Annar The Gote
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[] (tentative name) is a completely visual language. It is conjured by its speaker as a floating hologram. The concept is entirely a rip of, off blissymbolics.

Right then. Let's start with basic glyphs:

thing.png signifies concrete object.
action.png action.
place.png signifies a place.

[] has a really rough lexical granularity. For example, there is no separate glyph for "walk", "run", or even "fly". It's all comprised into the glyph "move": move.png

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[] is written strictly linearly without any break, at all. This means that when written conventionally as multiple line, the language is written in boustrophedon with the glyph in the next line turned upside down. For the sake of reasder however multiline text here will be written as in most terran language in the world.

[] grammar depends heavily on syntax and the the way the language written itself can be described using a formal grammar.

The lexemes in [] are divided into three class: nouns, verbs, and conjunctions.

1) S > NV

A sentence consistes of a nominal phrase and a verb phrase. Adjectives behaves as stative verbs:
person.pngmove.png  > The person moves.
person.pngbig.png  > The person is big.

2) N > NcN

A nominal phrase can consist of two other nominal phrase joined with a conjunction.

3) N > VN

A nominal phrase can consist of a nominal phrase and a verb that acts as a participle.

move.pngperson.png  > The person who moves.
big.pngperson.png  > The person who is big > Big person.

4) N > NN

When two nominal phrase placed beside each other, the one on the right possess the one to the left of it. Imagine a word "of" inserted between them. For example:

place.pngperson.png > The person's place.

5) V > MV

Verb can be tagged with several kind of markers. For example, perfect marker:

PERFECT.pngbig.pngperson.png > The person who had been big.
person.pngPERFECT.pngbig.png > The person had been big,

To resolve ambiguity, a nominal phrase can be enclosed by parentheses:

place.png(.pngbig.pngperson.png).png > The big person's place.

On the other hand, to resolve ambiguity involving participle with an object, sharp parentheses are used:

<.pngmake.pngthing.png>.pngperson.png > Person who makes thing.

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Man, this was pretty tedious to "write".
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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I get the feeling this is not going to be a system that lends itself readily to developing a large or precise vocabulary.
? tiramisu posts: 76
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Not unless there's a limitation on glyphs. Otherwise it's just an unpronounceable logographic language.
? Hâlian the Protogen
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, Alípteza, United States
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It's not designed to be speakable.
? Slereah posts: 4
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It is conjured by its speaker as a floating hologram.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabus
? Yaali Annar The Gote
posts: 94
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Voicing:

The voice marker represents the "direction" of the verb. It can be placed before or after the verb.

94Gzwwp.png man touches building

EG34C2R.png building is touched by man

Here's how to write "man makes building" or rather "man causes the existence of building"

RfIh2o4.png

The glyph for creation can also be used to form causative:

NSzVlhz.png

Gloss: "person make ( building big ) "
English: "man enlarges building"

The parenthesed phrase is the nominalization of the sentence "building is big".
? masako posts: 206
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Mildly interesting.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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If you make your graphics #808080, they'll show up on both of  Annie's visual styles decently well.

example