<!>If your conlang were a natlang... (2018-11-22 23:13:35)
If your conlang were a natlang...
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Lilitika has very blatant Attic phonaesthetics (even with somewhat similar letter frequency tables) in its later dialects, but underneath it all, my actual induction into curiosity about constructed grammar came from a cursory awareness of the agglutinative habits of Korean case markers, so there's some resonance with that in Lilitika's early phases, which verge on polysynthetic. I did manage to get an almost 1:1 parse tree with the opening lines of the Iliad, though, since Lilitika essentially has the PIE cases. Best witnessed here.
Other conlangs on the go:
Ksreskézaian languages are a self-conscious effort to avoid mimicking anything of which I'm aware. However, due to contact with humans, some of the later forms do include a small amount of vocabulary with recognizable Terran roots.
Roshagil: Mandarin after a bad one-night stand with English. Though the vocabulary and near-total lack of morphology is unquestionably Chinese, the depredations of time have curiously restricted the language to the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet. Half a million years in the future, ASCII remains unchanged, though the letter forms are not very recognisable.
Kuanid: Not much of a start on this, but my hope is to eventually derive it from a boiled-down convergence of the procedural languages of the EU—so, mostly French and German. Luxembourgian, if you will, or Italo-Germanic more historically. This is the language spoken by most of the future-humans in the setting, and is notoriously described as having no standard form, but rather an immense sea of synonyms and graphemes that argolects and idiolects are plucked from. Consequently I've considered adding ideograms to Kuanid, but not to Roshagil. Yup.
Glissía: Attic. It's meticulously constructed out of Greek with some of the basic facts of PIE shuffled around for convenience and a formal syntax for symbolic logic grafted onto it. The language is spoken by inconceivably stodgy academics who refuse to change much about it. Originally the plan for Glissía was to find a happy medium between Latinists and Hellenists, a sort of hybrid that all Classicists could be proud of. Then the plan was to construct an absurdly complex superset of both Latin and Greek that could be mixed freeform. Now it's just Greek with extra declensions and cases.
Lilitika has very blatant Attic phonaesthetics (even with somewhat similar letter frequency tables) in its later dialects, but underneath it all, my actual induction into curiosity about constructed grammar came from a cursory awareness of the agglutinative habits of Korean case markers, so there's some resonance with that in Lilitika's early phases, which verge on polysynthetic. I did manage to get an almost 1:1 parse tree with the opening lines of the Iliad, though, since Lilitika essentially has the PIE cases. Best witnessed here.
Other conlangs on the go:
Ksreskézaian languages are a self-conscious effort to avoid mimicking anything of which I'm aware. However, due to contact with humans, some of the later forms do include a small amount of vocabulary with recognizable Terran roots.
Roshagil: Mandarin after a bad one-night stand with English. Though the vocabulary and near-total lack of morphology is unquestionably Chinese, the depredations of time have curiously restricted the language to the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet. Half a million years in the future, ASCII remains unchanged, though the letter forms are not very recognisable.
Kuanid: Not much of a start on this, but my hope is to eventually derive it from a boiled-down convergence of the procedural languages of the EU—so, mostly French and German. Luxembourgian, if you will, or Italo-Germanic more historically. This is the language spoken by most of the future-humans in the setting, and is notoriously described as having no standard form, but rather an immense sea of synonyms and graphemes that argolects and idiolects are plucked from. Consequently I've considered adding ideograms to Kuanid, but not to Roshagil. Yup.
Glissía: Attic. It's meticulously constructed out of Greek with some of the basic facts of PIE shuffled around for convenience and a formal syntax for symbolic logic grafted onto it. The language is spoken by inconceivably stodgy academics who refuse to change much about it. Originally the plan for Glissía was to find a happy medium between Latinists and Hellenists, a sort of hybrid that all Classicists could be proud of. Then the plan was to construct an absurdly complex superset of both Latin and Greek that could be mixed freeform. Now it's just Greek with extra declensions and cases.