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Anzurians are a race of aliens for which I have created a number of things, this language being one of the biggest. This is the first language I've ever created, and it's still not quite done. My goal is to have a language that is as independent of my native English as possible, and that suits the personality of the Anzurian people who speak it. Like many of my other endeavors, I'm also doing this to learn. Language has so much to do with culture, which ties this right in with my Anzurian culture project, and there are so many aspects and possibilities with language. For the first few months, every little thing I did with the newborn language incurred a few hours of research on some specific aspect of linguistics and/or phonology. | Anzurians are a race of aliens for which I have created a number of things, this language being one of the biggest. This is the first language I've ever created, and it's still not quite done. My goal is to have a language that is as independent of my native English as possible, and that suits the personality of the Anzurian people who speak it. Like many of my other endeavors, I'm also doing this to learn. Language has so much to do with culture, which ties this right in with my Anzurian culture project, and there are so many aspects and possibilities with language. For the first few months, every little thing I did with the newborn language incurred a few hours of research on some specific aspect of linguistics and/or phonology. | ||
So, based on my reason for this project, Anzurian is an artlang being created to make my constructed world more complete. It is made to emulate a natlang, but still be simple enough that it can be effectively learned in the real world. I also wanted it to be very flexible, such that few words could say much. Hence, it is a more synthetic language than English, and its syntax is much looser. However, with this freedom one must realize that every choice one makes creates connotations and implications. Whether you place the affix at the beginning or the end of the word, for example (I'm staying away from infixes for now), and in what order the words are presented. In the end, this means that you can "play one of two games". Either the "I want to say as much with as few words" game, which results in longer words and more implications, or you can play the "I want to get the message across as simply as I can" game, which leads to short, base words and straightforward meanings. This kind of gradient allows for many levels of formality (the more complicated one being the more formal, naturally) as well as making the language both easy and difficult to learn, depending on which game you want to play first. | So, based on my reason for this project, Anzurian is an [[Artistic language|artlang]] being created to make my constructed world more complete. It is made to emulate a natlang, but still be simple enough that it can be effectively learned in the real world. I also wanted it to be very flexible, such that few words could say much. Hence, it is a more synthetic language than English, and its syntax is much looser. However, with this freedom one must realize that every choice one makes creates connotations and implications. Whether you place the affix at the beginning or the end of the word, for example (I'm staying away from infixes for now), and in what order the words are presented. In the end, this means that you can "play one of two games". Either the "I want to say as much with as few words" game, which results in longer words and more implications, or you can play the "I want to get the message across as simply as I can" game, which leads to short, base words and straightforward meanings. This kind of gradient allows for many levels of formality (the more complicated one being the more formal, naturally) as well as making the language both easy and difficult to learn, depending on which game you want to play first. | ||
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