Phaleran - Conlang Profile

Phaleran - Conlang Profile

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Language Name	Phaleran
Language Author	Thomas Wier
Year Began	2001
Site	Phaleran
Broken Link	No
Site Language	English
Language Type	fictional language
Uniqueness	Nothing, because it is designed with natural languages in mind, and everything, because no other language shares precisely the same lexicon or arrangement of possible structures. Which is as it should be.
Language Sources	Esperanto and other Euroclones were a kind of negative inspiration -- I did not want Phaleran to be like them. [The language has 1500 words, though not in an online dictionary.]
Design Principles	To be, in principle, indistinguishable from a natural human language. Of course, this is impossible, but to the extent that all its features can be explained in terms of phenomena that occur in natural human languages, it achieves this goal.
Conculture Noun Phrase	the inhabitants of Gelenê, a large satellite orbiting the second planet of Upsilon Andromedae
Dictionary	No
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Unique Script	No
Primer	No
Babel Text	No
Submitted By	Thomas Wier
Date Submitted	Saturday, July 03, 2004
Date Edited	Saturday, July 03, 2004
Date To Headline	Saturday, July 10, 2004