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2/29/00 Link Ectropy
Ann Vole

Ann Vole wrote in to point out some link entropy in the ModLang Links, which I have fixed, thus increasing the ectropy of the universe.

  • Microyak is gone from the Web, but its sister, Cyberyak, has been safely archived. Cyberyak has evolved into Earth Minimal. The two *yak languages were the key inspiration for transforming Dublex into a root-minimal loglang.
  • The only page left on the Web about Kalaba-X is now the link page itself! Oh, well.
  • Here's an embarrassing one. I had a broken link to my own Kordron, the sample Orcish language I created to demonstrate the capabilities of LangMaker/Win. Oops!
  • J2 has moved from AOL to force9.net and is now called Sevorian. Despite the name and locale change, it is still just a short sketch. But check out its big sister, Jameld.
  • Novial 97 became Novial 98 and seems to have ended there. I was going to point you to another Novial reform, Novial Pro (sounds like a software product!) but it is now gone from the Web as well. Novial is one of my favorite Eurolangs, and I would love to see it successfully reformed. The beginnings of the Novial 97 dictionary are still on the Web, if you want to reform the language yourself. If you are up to gathering all the public domain texts about Novial together (it is old enough for the copyright to have expired on many texts), I'm willing to host them.

Happy langmaking!

Jeffrey
 
 

2/28/00 Pitakosilano Is Easy To Say

Pitakosilano (Henning, Jeffrey) - international auxiliary language - 1999
The name of this language says it all; that is, the name of this language includes every phoneme used in the language: /p/, /t/, /k/, /s/, /l/, /n/ and /i/, /a/ and /o/. If you believe the single greatest challenge of learning an auxlang is mastering its phonology, than Pitakosilano is for you. It has the simplest phonology of any IAL, carefully designed to contain only sounds that are "near universal" across all natural languages.
 

2/27/00 The Gothic Language Lives!

Gothic (Perrotin, Damien Erwan) - fictional diachronic language
Alas, no Eastern Germanic language survives in our world, but Perrotin has created an alternate history where Wulfilan Gothic survives. Gutisk, as its speakers call it, is grammatically simpler than its ancestor, if yet richer in inflexions than modern German and Romance languages. The site has sample texts, a reference grammar and rich graphics.

Perrotin, a native of Brittany, also has published a Breton Babel Text.
 

2/11/00 Ley Arah

Ley Arah (A'al, Jashan) - fictional language - 1993
Originally developed by its author to prevent people from reading his journal entries, Ley Arah quickly expanded into a fictional language for a culture known as the Tsara, the subject of short stories. The basic characteristics of Ley Arah include an agglutinative structure (relying heavily on suffixes), an (almost) completely regular gender structure and contextual parts of speech (i.e. ''he'' can be noun, verb or adjective, with no distinction until placed in a phrase). It changes word order between SVO to VSO depending on whether the subject is a noun (SVO) or a pronoun (VSO). The language has a unique script and over 850 words.

2/3/00 Ancallon Now At Ancallon.com
Ancallon languages (Lerch, Juls) - fictional languages - 1990s
Ancallon is a continent created for an RPG (role-playing game) campaign. The author has moved the site from America Online to its own domain. The eight main languages of Ancallon are each described in just a paragraph or two; some are based on natural languages (English, Welsh, Irish), while the others are invented (Konamoata is patterned on Hawaiian, and Banrok provides the obligatory :-) ergative language).

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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