G'amah - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name G'amah Language Author Pablo Flores Year Began 2000 Site G'amah Broken Link No Site Language English Site Author Pablo Flores Language Type fictional language Uniqueness It's not a human language, so I expect it to be different from most human languages, though it's too soon to tell yet (the language is less than two months old when I write this). It's got a purposefully difficult phonology, which I doubt any human language has, and a strange case system mixing the (already rare) ergative/absolutive system with our familiar nominative/accusative system, according to the person of the subject and object. It doesn't have third person pronouns (not that strange, really -- Latin didn't either), and it has five levels of deixis: things on the speaker's power, things at hand, things within sight, things not within sight but perceived by smell, touch or intuition, and things outside the reach of one's senses. This deixis system is, as far as I know, unique. Language Sources Semitic languages have influenced it in the phonology a bit, and more in the syntax, which is rather analytic, verb-first, with adjectives following nouns. Through my scarce hearsay knowledge of African languages G'amah got its implosive consonants, and the inspiration for its weird case system is Dyirbal, an Australian language. Design Principles I'm trying to produce a language that is best shouted, that doesn't fit on a nice poem or a romantic song, a language of an aggresive people. Its words must be harsh, short and powerful (like the fall of a hammer on a rotten branch or on a dusty ground). Interest Of Others There are no people involved but me. The language was started to give a background to a roleplaying setting, and a couple of my gamemates have said they're impressed with the language, even if they didn't understand some of the linguistic nuances. Dictionary Yes Etymologies No Grammar Yes Sample Texts No Unique Script Yes Primer No Babel Text No Lexicon Size 141 Submitted By Pablo Flores Updated By Jeffrey Henning Date Edited Saturday, April 24, 2004 Description Of Update Replaced broken link with new link. Date To Headline Thursday, April 29, 2004 < Gälðyr  G'amah  Gamyar >
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