User:Culmaer
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| Birth: | Early June. Cape Town, South Africa |
| Profession: | Student |
| Natural languages: | N- Afrikaans N- English |
| Other natlangs: | Would learn: Lingua Latina |
| Created conlangs: | Syrunian; Culmærian |
| Other conlangs: | Carrajina; Albic; Teonaht; gjâ-zym-byn; Bâzrâmani |
| Interests: | Jorge Luis Borges; N P v.Wyk Louw; Oded Ezer; Art; Typogrophy art; Music; Die Antwoord; the Bible; al-Qur’an; Pokémon |
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I am Iuhan Culmærija – or ‘’John the Culmærian’’.
Despite living in South Africa, I do not speak Xhosa, Zulu or any other Bantu language. I have never regretted this – although I probably will eventually :Þ. Xhosa was compulsory from grade 0 to grade 7 at the school I attended; I have since forgotten everything and even struggle to produce click phonemes. I blame the fact that I dropped Xhosa for French.
I really don’t like [dʒ] and [tʃ]. I am not fond of initial [g] either. I often find that I listen to the sounds coming from people’s mouths rather than words. Essentially – this is why I conlang: I like beautiful sounding languages. This sounds quite Tolkienesque, however I am not a Quenya and Sindarin fan. I respect and admire the languages as art works; only, my phonoæsthetics differ from Tolkien’s.
I really like romlangs and germanic conlangs. While the GMP does not interest me much – I ‘’always’’ find the final product fascinating. My first conlang with which I’ve been able to engage is Syrunian – a semitic romlang.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Syrunian:
Sunt nasħuntaθs aunes ħuns libers, eħuals et sam al-dihnte al-żihursqe. Sunt dunati luir dal raσnim dal cusħentsimsqe et est-ċi avulet q’ agiσint ilar sifral-autres sam al-sfirte fraθres.
סונט נאסחוטאתס אונעס חונס ליבערס ,עחואלס עט סאם אל-דיהנטע אל-זּיהורסכע. סונט דונאטי לויר דאל-ראשנים דאל-קוסחעצימסכע עט עסט-צּי אוּולעט כ אגישינט ילאר סיףראל-אוטרעס סאם אל-סףירטע ףראתרעס.
/sunt nasxʊ:ntaðz awnez xʊ:nz liberz exwa:ls et sam: al di:ntɛ: al ʒihʊ:rsqə sunt duna:ti lwir dal raʃni:m dal kusχɛ:ntsims qə et esttʃi avulɛ:t qagiʃi:nt ila:r sifralawtrɛ:s samal sfirtɛ: fraθrɛ:s/
- /q/ = [q] or [χ]
