Kélen - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Kélen Language Author Sylvia Sotomayor Year Began 1982 Site Kélen Broken Link No Site Language English Language Type fictional language Uniqueness "Learning about universals made me wonder what a language would be like that violated them. So Kélen became my laboratory for exploring the line between a human and a non-human language. There are a few inherent difficulties to this task. For one thing, since we haven't found any intelligent aliens, there are no non-human languages to look at for comparison. So, my strategy was to take a universal (namely, all languages have large open classes of nouns and verbs) and violate it. So, Kélen lost all of its verbs and became a language of nouns and particles." - Sylvia Sotomayor Conculture Noun Phrase aliens Quotation p'ja naer maruw il-alle an tashaon anyth an a soreñ aneñ Explanation rel. +art. "whole" "earth" time- phr. "now" obj. part. "language" "one" obj. part. pl. part. "speech" "one together Translation Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. Dictionary No Etymologies No Grammar Yes Sample Texts Yes Unique Script Yes Primer No Babel Text Yes Submitted By Dean Easton Date Submitted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Updated By Jeffrey Henning Date Edited Monday, September 06, 2004 Description Of Update Corrected spelling of name. Date To Headline Monday, September 06, 2004 < Keldare  Kélen  Kelenala >
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