| Language Name | Vardhastani |
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| Language Author | Anselm Huppenbauer |
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| Year Began | 2004 |
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| Site | Vardhastani  |
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| Broken Link | No |
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| Site Language | English |
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| Language Type | fictional diachronic language |
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| Uniqueness | Vardhastani is the northern sister language of the more well known artlang Archeía. It contains some features of the Sanskrit phonology as palatals and aspirates, but I tried to "dissolve" the words by reducing nearly all unstressed vowels to 'a' [a]/[6] so much that the result sounds very homogenous and flowing, not to say monotonous - by means of a mostly agglutinative morphology. |
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| Language Sources | Sanskrit and a dull shamanic spell from a computer game. |
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| Design Principles | As in all my attempts of conlangery, the principal aim is beauty, for conlanging is art, but I try to reach different kinds of beauty in the languages - in this case the result shall evoke something like ancient temples and colourless jungle. |
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| Interest Of Others | It has only been presented at the ZBB. |
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| Quotation | Thuva anadiyadan bâjaya joah" - jakva kunasi ya balinasitvan. |
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| Explanation | ["t_hu:v6 "an6dij6d6n "bA:J\6j6 "J\o:6 - "jakv6 "kun6sI_xj6 "balin6sitv6n] |
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| Translation | You only must change the direction" - said the cat and eat it up. (Franz Kafka) |
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| Dictionary | No |
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| Etymologies | No |
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| Grammar | No |
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| Sample Texts | Yes |
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| Unique Script | No |
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| Primer | No |
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| Babel Text | No |
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| Lexicon Size | 100 |
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| Submitted By | Anselm Huppenbauer |
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| Date Submitted | Saturday, December 11, 2004 |
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| Updated By | Anselm Huppenbauer |
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| Date Edited | Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
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| Description Of Update | sample added |
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| Date To Headline | Tuesday, January 04, 2005 |
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