Nawi: Difference between revisions

|pronunciation = /nɑ̀.ví /

|script = Pawa, [[w:Latin script|Latin]]

'''Nawi''' is a constructed, a priori language that serves two purposes, which shows the dialectal split.  The first, the Literary, is a psuedohistory recorded by a monk from inner Africa who moves to Alexandria whose name is recorded as Toma.  The purpose of the Literary dialect is to produce vocabulary terms, some grammar, and put the language in a little context.  The second variety and purpose is the Natural, which, after the Literary is sufficiently developed, will serve as a metrolang for several languages in a separate project.

 

Nawi is created and maintained by [[User:Burke|Burke]], and being incomplete it has no real speakers, and chances are it never will have any.   

Nawi is a personal project to investigate and incorporate elements of languages that constructed languages often seem to avoid including processes of [[w:reduplication|reduplication]], [[w:relational_noun|relational nouns]], and some other topics.  The first form, Literary, will be used to fuel the second, Natural.  If any form of Nawi ever does end up spoken in any degree, it will likely be the Literary since it will have the most defined lexicon and strongest prescribed grammar.  It also will come with its own writing system behind it.