Verdurian: Difference between revisions

'''Verdurian''' (''soa Sfahe'', "the Speech") is a [[constructed language]] created by Mark Rosenfelder, first published in 1995<ref name="inthelandofinventedlanguages1">{{citation|last=Okrent|first=Arika|title=In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language|publisher=Spiegel & Grau|place=New York|edition=1st|year=2009|page=298|quote=The years given [in the book's list of conlangs, in which Verdurian is given a date of 1995] for most of the languages I list from 1990 on represent (approximately) the first posting about the language on the Web, in a newsgroup, or on a site dedicated to the language.}}</ref><ref name="secreth">{{cite web|url=http://www.zompist.com/secreth.htm |title=The Secret History of Verduria|publisher=zompist.com|access-date=2020-12-15|quote=I accumulated a miscellaneous heap of Almean stuff during college [including a] hefty Verdurian grammar and a vocabulary of several thousand words, plus various short documents in Verdurian. . . . After college, in 1984, . . . I typed in the dictionary and rewrote the grammar. . . .}}</ref> and hosted at his website, [[Zompist.com]].  

Out of all the languages of Almea, Verdurian is not only the best-developed but the most popular.<ref name="relaz1"/> Rosenfelder has translated texts from other languages into Verdurian and also published short stories and a newspaper in the language.<ref name="relaz1"/>  He has also started a Verdurian course due to the requests of Verdurian aficionados,<ref name="relaz1"/> and the language was so popular as to inspire a Zompist.com spin-off [[Internet forum]].<ref>[http://zbb.spinnwebe.com]  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017084935/http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/ |date=October 17, 2010 }}</ref>