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===Asup=== | ===Asup=== | ||
One of a few names for a conlang I created in 1997 and played with for about a year afterwards. It was rigidly structured, and good at expressing religious concepts. For example, the root word for church was ''an'', and there were two roots for God: ''al'' and ''m''. (I believe that I didnt capitalize them.) There was also a syllabic ''m'', which could be short or long (this was around the time that the song MMMBop came out). | One of a few names for a conlang I created in 1997 and played with for about a year afterwards. It was rigidly structured, and good at expressing religious concepts. For example, the root word for church was ''an'', and there were two roots for God: ''al'' and ''m''. (I believe that I didnt capitalize them.) There was also a syllabic ''m'', which could be short or long (this was around the time that the song MMMBop came out). | ||
===Moonshine (1994)=== | |||
This was a language I created in 1994, and was my first true a priori conlang. It had no ancestors or daughters, and I remember considering it to be eternal. It was very compact, and I remember writing "[[Camia/Characters#Power|Power]] speaks a language that works in its written but not its spoken form". That is to say, Moonshine was so full of homophones that it was literally impossible to communicate in Moonshine out loud without being ambiguous. It could be compared to a hypothetical Japanese in which the kanji are used freely, meaning that, for example, the syllable /shō/ could refer to any of more than 70 kanji, which nevertheless would be perfectly understandable when written down. | |||
===Wamian=== | ===Wamian=== | ||
Revision as of 10:41, 21 September 2016
Asup
One of a few names for a conlang I created in 1997 and played with for about a year afterwards. It was rigidly structured, and good at expressing religious concepts. For example, the root word for church was an, and there were two roots for God: al and m. (I believe that I didnt capitalize them.) There was also a syllabic m, which could be short or long (this was around the time that the song MMMBop came out).
Moonshine (1994)
This was a language I created in 1994, and was my first true a priori conlang. It had no ancestors or daughters, and I remember considering it to be eternal. It was very compact, and I remember writing "Power speaks a language that works in its written but not its spoken form". That is to say, Moonshine was so full of homophones that it was literally impossible to communicate in Moonshine out loud without being ambiguous. It could be compared to a hypothetical Japanese in which the kanji are used freely, meaning that, for example, the syllable /shō/ could refer to any of more than 70 kanji, which nevertheless would be perfectly understandable when written down.
Wamian
Not really a single language, "the Wamian language" is essentially a term for any lanuggae consisting of features I dont like, which goes to the nation of "Wamia", which itself is not a single nation but rather a term for any nation fulfilling a similar role.
When I was 10 years old, Wamian was essentially English spoken by a child with a speech impediment. So severe was his speech impediment that he didnt replace all /l/ and /r/ sounds with /w/, as stereotypical toddlers did ,but instead replaced all /l/, /r/, and /w/ sounds with /b/. (As some toddlers do.) Thus Wamians "couldnt even say their own country's name".
The (post-2010) Thaoa lanuggae began as an attempt to create a language full of features I disliked, but as I worked on it I came to find beauty in it after all. Nevertheless, it is my least favorite of the conlangs I am working on now, and I find it difficult to put any significant effort into it.
