User:Stelvojoj

Handy things, mostly just as a reminder.

Marko Stanković fell into artlanging by total accident after fulfilling his childhood dream of learning Esperanto at age 23 and deriving from it the same bad aftertaste that it leaves in the mouth of most creative palates. Beginning with a quest to create a romlang to conquer all romlangs, he soon found that it was maddening to try and actually make decisions in the midst of balancing creative license with historical plausbility, and so he now takes greatest pleasure in creating artlangs that merely evoke Indo-European philology while maintaining a distinct character.

Dwekoenish is a baroque but playful mishmash of elements of Indo-European (especially, but not exclusively, from the Satem branch) and Uralic languages, designed purely for aesthetic pleasure. It is decently naturalistic but makes no serious attempt to be something that would be mistaken for some forgotten, minor European tongue. Notable features include dual number, extensive vowel harmonization, several diachronic regularizations by analogy, and the fully open front rounded phoneme /ɶ/, which apparently is yet to be found in any form other than an occasional allophone among natural languages.

In the meantime, my pet project is an as-yet unnamed Germanic stealthlang. It's intended to be easily learned by speakers of English, and it liberally borrows grammatical concepts from auxiliary languages like Esperanto (while still attempting to retain an at least superficial Germanic character). It is also, however, not without its fair share of quirks (such as the absence of high vowels!). Dwekoenish is pretty much consuming all my conlanging time lately, really. But this'll also be neat if/when it's ever done.