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Vallenan is an artistic language whose goal is to convey a sense of contradictory complexity. It is made to be both simple and complex. It does this through the use of a simple series of over one thousand suffixes, each a variation of a simpler suffix. For example, the Emotional Response suffix is a single suffix with 114 variants. So one could argue that there are only a few dozen suffixes and be technically correct.


Created in mid 2016, it has been in development by Damein Fisher without stop ever since. Inspired by a variety of other Conlangs such as Solresol, Ithkuil, Kay(f)bop(t) and Ygyde. In a sense, Vallenan is a language of opposites. It is independent of grammar while being bound to a complex system of simple suffixes.
Speakers can be as specific as they choose, at the cost of just that; specification. For example, in English and most natural languages the affirmative case is assumed, that the thing being said is valid. Unlike in Vallenan, where unless the validity suffix is affirmative, a word is an abstract concept in a manner similar to Schrödinger's cat. It could be valid, it could be not what I'm saying. The listener doesn't know.
The largest step from natural languages in Vallenan is its grammar. Every aspect of grammar, from word order to syntax, is instead conveyed in a suffix. A word on it's own with no suffixes isn't bound to tense, amount, aspects, definiteness, evidence, validity or case. It isn't a noun, a verb or an adjective. It is simply an abstract concept of the meaning. Gata (cat) doesn't just mean cat, it means the idea of what makes a cat. The sounds, shape, movement of a cat. It could mean anything from "like a cat" to "a cat" to "to do something with a cat" to even "not a cat". Root word in Vallenan are essentially meaningless.

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