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imdamoos · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 64 Location: New York

The language Caelaurian is spoken in the country of Caelauria, which is somehow located in between France and Italy.

I hope it doesn't bother anyone that I hand-wrote it; I wanted to make it really easy to understand.

1. Phonology: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaeradjr/3802167603/sizes/l/

2. Pronouns, objects: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaeradjr/3802167721/sizes/l/

3. Possessives, articles, plurals: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaeradjr/3802167965/sizes/l/

4. Conjunctions & prepositions, verbs & tenses: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaeradjr/3802169027/sizes/l/

5. Questions, prefixes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaeradjr/3802987012/sizes/l/

6. Emotional words, superlatives: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaeradjr/3802172369/sizes/l/

7. Family, family prefixes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaeradjr/3802987888/sizes/l/

8. Numbers, capitalization, -iiná: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scaeradjr/3802988362/sizes/l/

imdamoos · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 64 Location: New York

achemel · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 556 Location: up for debate

It looks interesting! Very Happy

And your handwriting is very nice and neat.
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I have some small knowledge of:
English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French
I would like to learn:
Italian, Norwegian, Gaelic
Main conlangs:
ddamachel, tadvaradcel, ra cel, lashel, hemnalg, nomah

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

I'm liking your orthography, and way of indicating long/short vowels - very well done!

The rest of it looks quite thorough (although maybe a bit of a downside - there's a lot of distinction, eg. rhetorical questions... but it's your choice).

Good job and good luck!

eldin raigmore · Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Caelaurian

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:37 pm Post subject:

Quick clarification, your distinction between 'short' and 'long' vowels isn't one of literal length (not /a/ vs /a:/), but one of quality (/{/ vs /a/)?

imdamoos · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 64 Location: New York

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

English's description of its own phonology is almost 700 years out of date. You probably don't want to copy it. (Just a suggestion.)

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:49 am Post subject:

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

I just laid out the vowels according to what I assumed would look good with accents:

æ a ɑ,ɒ eɪ = a (later, ɑ,ɒ became o)
ɛ i = e (in other langs etc, i became i)
ɪ aɪ,ʌɪ = i
ɑ,ɒ u oɪ = o (later, o was also transplanted here from w [below])
u ʊ ə (and syllabic? consonant) = u
o ao eo = w
(ɪ aɪ,ʌɪ = y in later uses)

one of the reasons for some of the placements were that I had to use only 5-6 letters, but 20 sounds, and preferably, a max of maybe 3 accents.

I figured that since these groupings each had sounds that 'sounded' like they had relative lengths, short/middle/long was an easy organization to adopt. (Later, extra-short, and extra long/other sections were also added for the syllabic consonants, the IPA: breve; and geminate/long dipthongs, respectively.)

In my original notes, this wasn't the organization though: I didn't have aesthetics as a requisite at the time, or much knowledge about phonetics, or anything.
so there was:
a eɪ ɑ,ɒ
ɛ i e (and the syllabic consonant vowel)
ɪ aɪ,ʌɪ
ɑ,ɒ o ɔ oɪ ao,eo
ʌ ʊ u ju
ə

So yeah... lots of pretty stuff that eventually led up to some kind of organization, which I then learned looks way too much like English (having all of Englishs' sounds, as opposed to most vowel inventories)...

Actually, I'm going to see what I can do for a new complete vowel inventory now Twisted Evil

Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:06 am Post subject:

Interesting. ^_^
Seeing the way beginner conlangs (n00blang is too pejorative) are made is rather interesting.

Aert · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 354

heh - n00blang Very Happy

but definitely! My first rendition of Aert was extremely simplistic, but it got across the basics of what I wanted (simple, powerful verbal conjugation; easy to learn), but I ended up breaking some of the initial rules (added a case system, got rid of some prepositions, some other stuff). Ylara is much more a linguistic language, I think: it takes a look at linguistic properties (some very different from English), and applied them. It also has a moderate vowel harmony system (but a small one). I don't really know what I want to do right now, but yeah. Ideas will come (especially from linguistics class, I hope - YAY!)