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Language Name Long Wer Language Author Sophia Abraham (Ábrahám Zsófia) aka Mau Rauser Year Began 2000 Site Long Wer Broken Link No Site Language English Language Type fictional language Uniqueness Ga Long Wer, e-ngwa téma yae. - "What is Long Wer, no one can say." Long Wer is a language I created for my "animal fantasy" novel Hia and Mau. It is the language of Cats and other felines of our age. It is intended to be musical and well-sounding. Its basic vocabulary is from Egyptian, and as it is, mainly VSO, though it has a lot of cases and agglutinates words for everything. LW belongs to the Meyadhewic language family, whose child languages descend from Archaic Meyadhew. a language spoken by the carnivores of our Earth around 65 million years ago. LW is the language of the feline culture, education and literature. I have a lot of texts in LW, as many translations as native LW ones. For more info, see the web site. Language Sources Ay, qey aláya ù noye nielongenna! - "O, how wonderful is creating a fair tongue!" It is long to say: Egyptian, English, Quenya, Hungarian, French, Latin and Zulu. At first, Ancient Egyptian was the basis I built on (for example the words Rìa, sehem, netyer) with the laziness of English, though I had more feeling than knowledge about this language. The writing system is also based on the hieroglyphs. Then I met Tolkien's Quenya. This made my language more musical. And then I decided to use some features of my mother tongue Hungarian such as vowel harmony, big compounds and agglutination (LW was isolating before). I also borrowed recently a sort of liaison from French and the idea of compact sentences from Latin. And from 1994 when I saw The Lion King, Zulu impressed me. Thus, I have some Bantu-ish words like 'Ngewante' or 'Ingonyama'. (And Meyadhew is built on Bantu bases, using a noun-class system and clicks.) Design Principles Long Wer is a highly agglutinating language. It uses a lot of cases (8 basic and over 10 additional) for nouns and an elaborate but easy-to-use verbal system (with 4 degrees of evidentiality [unmarked, supposed, hearsay, experience], 6 tenses, 3 moods [active, transitive, passive], 2 auxiliary affixes for habitual or continuous actions). For syntax, it is somewhat like Latin, with complex and pointed sentences. Interest Of Others Well, I have only two people so far who want to learn it. We will soon start the courses. Only a few are interested, mostly other conlangers. But when I finish my novel Hia and Mau, I hope I can publish it and some people will be interested or even want to learn. Dictionary Yes Etymologies Yes Grammar Yes Sample Texts Yes Unique Script Yes Primer No Babel Text No Lexicon Size 2,000 Submitted By Sophia Abraham (Ábrahám Zsófia) aka Mau Rauser Date Submitted Sunday, January 25, 2004 Updated By Jeffrey Henning Date Edited Wednesday, February 18, 2004 Description Of Update No Babel Text and the primer doesn't extend beyond one lesson. Date To Headline Sunday, January 25, 2004 < Lone  Long Wer  Loroi Trade >
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