Voksigid - Conlang Profile	Advanced
Language Name Voksigid Language Author Bruce Gilson; et al Year Began 1991 Site Voksigid Broken Link No Site Language English Language Type logical language Uniqueness "Voksigid was an attempt to construct a predicate language of a different type from those which had gone before. The first predicate language (Loglan, developed by James Cooke Brown), and its descendant Lojban, developed by Robert LeChevalier, both used word order to mark the various places in the predication. I felt that remembering which position meant which role in the predication might be beyond easy memorization for most people. I assembled a development committee in 1991, and for several months we worked on the language, which we named Voksigid." - B.R. Gilson Language Sources "The language has a syntax which was somewhat influenced by Japanese (but reversed; Japanese is verb-last and postpositional, Voksigid is verb-first and prepositional), and a vocabulary based mostly on European language roots." - B.R. Gilson Interest Of Others "Voksigid...is an engelang but hardly a loglang, because it doesn't encode logic: the predicates are just zero-valence verbs (and in practice they have perfectly ordinary distinctions between Dictionary Yes Etymologies No Grammar Yes Sample Texts No Unique Script No Primer No Babel Text No Lexicon Size 256 Submitted By NA Updated By Jeffrey Henning Date Edited Monday, July 12, 2004 Description Of Update Expanded profile. Date To Headline Monday, July 19, 2004 < Voidä  Voksigid  Volapük >
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