Minyeva (Malat) - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Minyeva Language Author Garrett Jones Year Began 1997 Site Minyeva Broken Link No Site Language English Language Type logical language Editorial Malat is intended to be the most logical a language can be, in both regularity and in expression. It also allows some relatively complicated concepts to be said in a relatively simple and unambiguous manner. All the vocabulary is arbitrarily made and unrelated to natural languages. Uniqueness Minyeva (previously Malat) is a language with regular structure and some unique syntactic features. Sentence structure is a causation string with each entity as a pivot around which their actions and states are placed. The resulting sentences are either VSO or SVO. The case system is a unique tripartite system with is one type of subject and two types of objects. Language Sources Minyeva counts as its inspiration other regular and logical languages: Lojban, Esperanto, Rick Morneau's Katanda, and other random languages. The vocabulary is a priori. Design Principles major goals: - COMPENDIOUSNESS. I concentrate on providing specific forms plus vague forms so that you can be as specific or as vague as you like. - REGULARITY. Syntactically regular, but not necessarily lexically regular (as in completely regular derivation of related concepts). - LEARNABILITY semi-major goals: - REDUNDANCY. I want the language to be usable in noisy environments. - SYNTACTIC NON-AMBIGUITY. But I won't sacrifice ease of use for this goal. - AESTHETICS - NATURALNESS. I want it to obey most universals, but not much aside from that. minor goals: - PARSABILITY. Whenever this goal doesn't conflict with higher goals. - LOGICALITY. Maybe I'll pay attention to this later. - LOCAL/FORMAL SIMPLICITY. I want the language to be useable. - SEMANTIC PRECISION. This seems to be related in some way to the thing right above. - FLEXIBILITY. Just a little more flexibility than natural languages. - CONCISION. I don't want sentence length to get out of hand. not goals: - ICONICITY. Related words don't necessarily have related form at all. - GLOBAL/FUNCTIONAL SIMPLICITY Interest Of Others Currently I'm the only one that knows any of the language, since it's in development. After development, my girlfriend and others will learn it. Quotation oL tes iLe asek iLe anek Explanation I sing-to him kick her, injuring. Translation I sing to him, making him kick her, injuring her. Dictionary Yes Etymologies No Grammar Yes Sample Texts No Unique Script No Primer No Babel Text Yes Lexicon Size 589 Submitted By NA Date Submitted Monday, February 09, 2004 Updated By Jeffrey Henning Date Edited Monday, July 05, 2004 Description Of Update Added list of Minyeva's goals from Engelang post (requires Yahoo login). Date To Headline Saturday, July 10, 2004 < Minhyan  Minyeva  Miouateku >
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