Pangaean Code

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Pangaean Code
Codex
Shanidar1.jpg
Photographed skull of Shanidar I
Created byVeno
Datec. 50,000-12,000 BP
SettingMiddle-East (?)
Native speakers- (2024)
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  • Pangaean Code

Pangaean, also referred to as the Codex or Primordial Language, is a philosophical ab interiori language of the Upper Paleolithic that consists on codifying the atomic units of human knowledge into articulated sounds as an alphabet of thought. Its creator, Veno, named it after the hypothesis of Paleolithic Codes, wherein the language would be the oldest one.

The Codex is very similar to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz' idealization of a Characteristica Universalis, although the presence of Mnemonics and Sound Symbolism may set it apart from a genuine calculus ratiocinator. Meaningful units are mimetic rather than numeric (called phememes), whose discussion first appeared in Plato's Cratylus before being developed in the 20th Century by anthropologist Mary LeCron Foster. With those phememes [...]

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Other constructed languages similar to the Pangaean Code include Ithkuil (in morphological complexity), Lojban (in syntactic complexity), and IEML (in semantic complexity).


Introduction

Phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Cavetalk

/naik huiuzu aio/

Example texts

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