Kēlen - Revision history

Nicomega at 16:21, 8 November 2024

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Sware at 10:17, 11 September 2023

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Nicomega: /* Introduction */

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Introduction

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	==Introduction==		==Introduction==
	Kēlen is mentioned prominently by [[w:Sally Caves\|Sarah L. Higley]] in her book ''Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An edition, translation and discussion'' (Palgrave Macmillan 2007, ''The New Middle Ages'') where she discusses [[Lingua Ignota]] in the context of constructed languages up to the present day. She describes it as an example of the desire for originality in contemporary conlanging, by virtue of its verbless grammar, and notes that it is a prominent example of a conlang created by a woman. She also says that "fellow conlangers consider Kēlen to be efficient, elegant, strange and innovative, and its writing system is greatly admired."		Kēlen is mentioned prominently by [[w:Sally Caves\|Sarah L. Higley]] in her book ''Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An edition, translation and discussion'' (Palgrave Macmillan 2007, ''The New Middle Ages'') where she discusses [[w:Lingua Ignota\|Lingua Ignota]] in the context of constructed languages up to the present day. She describes it as an example of the desire for originality in contemporary conlanging, by virtue of its verbless grammar, and notes that it is a prominent example of a conlang created by a woman. She also says that "fellow conlangers consider Kēlen to be efficient, elegant, strange and innovative, and its writing system is greatly admired."
	Kēlen is also discussed at length in [http://www.philol.msu.ru/~sidorova/files/conlangs.pdf this paper] by M. Yu. Sidorova and O.N. Shuvalova,		Kēlen is also discussed at length in [http://www.philol.msu.ru/~sidorova/files/conlangs.pdf this paper] by M. Yu. Sidorova and O.N. Shuvalova,
	Several glossed examples are given.		Several glossed examples are given.

	At the third Language Creation Conference [[w:David J. Peterson\|David J. Peterson]] awarded the ''Smiley Award'' to Kēlen, describing it as "an [[w:engineered language\|engineered language]] with the soul of an [[artistic language]]". He explains that while its experimental structure is in many ways similar to an engineered language, the amount of linguistic and concultural detail given by Sotomayor (including inflection of the relationals, three different scripts, and information on Kēleñi culture and society such as a calendar and a method of divination) make it a fully fledged artistic project rather than a simple experiment.<ref>[http://dedalvs.conlang.org/smileys/2009.html David J. Peterson, ''The 2009 Smiley Award Winner: Kēlen'']</ref> Kēlen also comes with its own writing system, which bears a superficial resemblance to [[w:Devanagari\|Devanagari]].		At the third Language Creation Conference [[w:David J. Peterson\|David J. Peterson]] awarded the ''Smiley Award'' to Kēlen, describing it as "an [[w:engineered language\|engineered language]] with the soul of an [[artistic language]]". He explains that while its experimental structure is in many ways similar to an engineered language, the amount of linguistic and concultural detail given by Sotomayor (including inflection of the relationals, three different scripts, and information on Kēleñi culture and society such as a calendar and a method of divination) make it a fully fledged artistic project rather than a simple experiment.<ref>[http://dedalvs.conlang.org/smileys/2009.html David J. Peterson, ''The 2009 Smiley Award Winner: Kēlen'']</ref> Kēlen also comes with its own writing system, which bears a superficial resemblance to [[w:Devanagari\|Devanagari]].

	==Phonology==		==Phonology==
	Kēlen has 17 consonants and 16 vowels.		Kēlen has 17 consonants and 16 vowels.

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External links

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	[[Category:Alien languages]]		[[Category:Alien languages]]
			[[Category:Smiley Award winners]]
			{{art}}

Nicomega at 03:51, 29 January 2021

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Nicomega at 21:28, 28 January 2021

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	\|~~fam2~~=[[artistic language]]		\|familycolor=green
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	\|posteriori=[[a priori language]], consciously rejecting [[linguistic universal]]s to create an ''alien'' language		\|posteriori=[[a priori language]], consciously rejecting [[linguistic universal]]s to create an ''alien'' language
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Nicomega at 20:12, 28 January 2021

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	'''Kēlen''' is a [[constructed language]] created by Sylvia Sotomayor. It is an attempt to create a truly [[w:alien language\|''alien'' language]] by violating a key [[w:linguistic universal\|linguistic universal]]—namely that all human languages have verbs. In Kēlen, relationships between the noun phrases making up the sentence are expressed by one of four ''relationals''. Despite this, Kēlen is an expressive and intelligible language; texts written in Kēlen have been translated into other languages by several people other than the creator of the language, as may be seen [http://steen.free.fr/relay10/old_relays.html here]. In [http://podcast.conlang.org/2009/02/lcs-podcast-interview-with-sylvia-sotomayor/ this interview] Sotomayor states that she aims for Kēlen to be naturalistic apart from its verblessness, and that to achieve this she employs the principle "change one thing and keep everything else the same".		'''Kēlen''', [ˈkeːlen], is a [[constructed language]] created by Sylvia Sotomayor. It is an attempt to create a truly [[w:alien language\|''alien'' language]] by violating a key [[w:linguistic universal\|linguistic universal]]—namely that all human languages have verbs. In Kēlen, relationships between the noun phrases making up the sentence are expressed by one of four ''relationals''. Despite this, Kēlen is an expressive and intelligible language; texts written in Kēlen have been translated into other languages by several people other than the creator of the language, as may be seen [http://steen.free.fr/relay10/old_relays.html here]. In [http://podcast.conlang.org/2009/02/lcs-podcast-interview-with-sylvia-sotomayor/ this interview] Sotomayor states that she aims for Kēlen to be naturalistic apart from its verblessness, and that to achieve this she employs the principle "change one thing and keep everything else the same".

	In its concultural setting, Kēlen is spoken by an alien species (the Kēleñi).		In its concultural setting, Kēlen is spoken by an alien species (the Kēleñi).

Nicomega: /* Noun phrase */

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Noun phrase

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 The '''λi'''- prefix is used as a status marker when referring to personal names. It primarily occurs when the name is in the topic position. It can occur in front of any name that speaker wishes to show respect for.
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 :'Thus their name is Confusion, for the Lord made confusion of all languages there.'
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 '''jē''' is used for associating an animate noun with another animate noun. It inflects for person as follows:
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 '''jē''' can also be used to associate an animate with a proper-name location, as in '''makerāon''' '''jē sarāpa''' 'ruler of Sarāpa'.
 ===Sentence phrase===

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 : '''ānen'''	This is used to associate two nouns that are not in a relationship. It can also be used as an instrumentative marker.
 : '''sū''', '''rū''', '''rā'''	These are all locative phrase markers
 ===Sentence phrase===

Nicomega: /* Verb phrase */

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Verb phrase

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	~~===Verb phrase===~~
	===Sentence phrase===		===Sentence phrase===
	===Dependent clauses===		===Dependent clauses===