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== Introductions Are in Order ==
[[Special:MyPage/charinsert|Handy things]], mostly just as a reminder.


Hi! I'm Marko Stanković. A lurker of all the major conlanging circles since early 2008, I am a wayward scholar with a penchant for modern mathematics, undiscovered literature, and historical linguistics. For all of about that long, I've been familiar and enamored with the art of conlanging.
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.


On the other hand, I had my first run-in with the mere ''notion'' of conlanging at age 13; I caught a glimpse of a very short article about Esperanto in the fashionably yellowed pages of volume E of my World Book Encyclopedia. The idea that anyone could have the audacity, let alone the free time, to construct an entire language blew me away. I pictured long tables of whitecoat thinktank veterans, cogitating over grammatical forms and the best etymological paths to follow to select words like "table" and "automobile" and "be." Eleven years later, on a sabbatical from university, I recalled this vision and revisited the fantasy, this time aided and abetted by the interwebs to satisfy my curiosities. To think that it was in fact the work of but one man, let alone an opus completed in far less than a lifetime, baffled me. How does one go about creating a language in so (relatively) little time, and with any kind of consistency? Only one way to find out, right?
[[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.


While I am still one of the few artlangers who finds appeal and even aesthetic beauty in Esperanto, I have indeed graduated to artlangs since discovering and learning the Lingvo Internacia. I enjoy the sort of logicality and tessellations of forms entailed by Esperanto (and even its occasional leaning toward novel inconsistencies) the same way I enjoy mathematics. But language offers far more opportunity to manipulate colors and shapes, at least if you want to talk about either in the academic sense. I create languages in an effort to harness those colors and shapes. Having said that, most of my conlanging falls in the a posteriori domain; specifically, and probably like most a posteriori conlangers here, I create Indo-European conlangs. I don't typically create them on the basis of a grand master plan of any kind, though; I've found that I overthink those kinds of designs to death. I work most creatively when I just pull words from various sources and apply the kinds of unusual phonologies and morphologies I'm prone to creating.
<s>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!).</s> Dwekoenish is pretty much consuming all my conlanging time lately, really. But this'll also be neat if/when it's ever done.
 
My most serious and developed project is [[Dwekoennish]], a language that combines elements of many Indo-European languages with sprinklings of apiorisms and borrowings from other sources. With its most overt (but not only) influences including Latin, Spanish, Old English, and even the Slavic languages, it likely comes off messy to someone with a decent knowledge of these particular languages/language subfamilies, but it happens to suit my own aesthetics quite nicely. ;-)

Latest revision as of 00:25, 21 June 2012

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.

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