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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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | ||