| Language Name | Archeía |
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| Language Author | Anselm Huppenbauer |
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| Year Began | 1998 |
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| Site | Archeía  |
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| Broken Link | No |
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| Site Language | English |
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| Site Author | Anselm Huppenbauer |
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| Language Type | fictional diachronic language |
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| Uniqueness | It's a richly inflected language and maybe the conlang with the most irregular verbs (ca. 35). It also has a rich set of derivational affixes. With a few borrowings, it might even be turned into a working modern language. One other uniqueness is that several Greek letters are used. |
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| Language Sources | Concerning the grammar, inspired mostly by Greek (Ancient and Modern), but to a lesser extent also Quenya and Spanish. The phonology is also influenced by Sindarin and Bahasa Indonesia. |
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| Design Principles | As with most conlangers, my main aim was to create a beautiful language, with lots of vowels and not too much clusters, that is easily pronounceable (despite its quite complex grammar). The ideal sound would be a mixture between Greek, Quenya and Indonesian. |
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| Interest Of Others | Most of my friends aren't told by me about "my secret vice", though I think they know ;-) Only in the ZBB board the language has been discussed, and there are even a few persons who liked to learn it. |
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| Quotation | Os· Énos yerquendaξ’ anevende o· δωra, ya ce diá eξanna, ním θenãm lon θainon – ya to· rỹa ye to· viswe oide ní gedeψe oía gúmya os· lηyas ekoinos. |
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| Explanation | [O"sE:nOs 'jE6kwen'daksane"vEndE o"Do:ra 'jakE"dja: ?E"ksana 'nimTE"nam lOn"TainOn "jato "ry:a "jEto "viswE "OidEni ge"dEpsE "Oia "gumja Os"le:jas E"kOinOs] |
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| Translation | In the tales of the wind the trees became bare, and if I go out, I woudn’t find any apples – and the crimson and the sweet would only remain in one dream of a lost summer. |
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| Dictionary | Yes |
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| Etymologies | No |
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| Grammar | Yes |
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| Sample Texts | Yes |
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| Unique Script | No |
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| Primer | No |
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| Babel Text | Yes |
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| Lexicon Size | 2,500 |
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| Submitted By | Anselm Huppenbauer |
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| Date Submitted | Sunday, September 19, 2004 |
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| Updated By | Anselm Huppenbauer |
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| Date Edited | Tuesday, November 02, 2004 |
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| Description Of Update | New sample quotation |
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| Date To Headline | Wednesday, November 24, 2004 |
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