User:LinguarumMagister

My name is Anthony Miles. I started conlanging in high school, but fell in love with languages by reading Tolkien and starting Latin and Greek with stories of Aeneas and Achilles. My first conlang, naReNga naRí, was based on varying vowels within or next to consonantal roots. These notes exist somewhere at my parents' house. My second developed conlang, Habazalei Dhabramez, was Indo-European-influenced, and on its strength I joined the Conlang List. The notes for this conlang are in disrepair, and I doubt I can reconstruct it sufficiently thoroughly. My third fully developed conlang, Fortunatian or Uchunata, was set in a conworld, the Fortunate Islands Universe, which soon superceded the conlanging aspect of world building. I spent the next few years developing the FIU mythos and narrative. For year or so, I was too busy with other matters to do much conlanging or conculturing, but more recently I have returned to relatively pure conlanging. I have also become a "jan pi toki pona" and interested in minimal languages and natural semantic metalanguage. Don't worry, I'm not turning into an evangelical auxlanger!

Why do I conlang? I am fascinated by all languages, and this is the creative side. I strive in my conlanging to explore syntactic, grammatical, and diachronic concepts which I wish to understand better. I am not very interested in "exotic" sounds and feel that the overuse of such sounds in many conlangers' language distract from the interestinc syntactic, grammatical, and diachronic concepts which they have used. This is one reason why my conlangs tend to possess a relatively simple phonology and I spend little time on phonaesthetics.

When it comes to linguistic universals, the universality of some of which I doubt, I am willing to break a few in the name of aesthetics. For instance, Náŋifi Fasúxa is a strict V1 language. This violates a few universals, but it is completely pronounceable. So far, I have found ways around every non-V1 specification of VSO-dominant languages.

One could say, on the other hand, that I have been searching for "native tongue" my entire conlanging career. I know by now that this language is VSO-dominant, uses roots in a quasi-Hebrew way, and reflects a somewhat primitive way of life. If this sounds a bit like Náŋifi Fasúxa, that is not an accident. I am not going to push Náŋifi Fasúxa or any of my conlangs on anyone, since their "native tongue" will be different from mine, but would be delighted at any interest expressed in it and would gladly return the favor for their conlang.

Languages I am working on: A priori: Náŋifi Fasúxa A posteriori: Fortunatian (revised version) Cheyoon