Whipped up a silly language... .'.
Here's a sample of an [as yet] unnamed language, we'll call it sotlicod for now (sotlicod means (roughly) 'magic-ish')
Sotlicod is one of a few languages that I'm working on at the moment, they are all based around the same symbolic network that I've constructed.
The alphabet shown is one of 5 that I made tonight just for sotlicot (each of the languages have a few alphabets, each with a different goal (speed, aesthetic value, ease of reading), that will eventually be consolidated into the best fit. They all have 24 consonants and 5 vowels.
Sotlicod is interesting in it's similarity to arabic in that it's limited to the use of verbs, nouns and prepositions. It's verbs are based on triconsonantal roots, which are also used to make the nouns.
The vocabulary is quite limited at the moment, but aside from that the language itself is near complete. My choice of consonants for the roots was a little off-the-cuff, which has led to it having a sort of klunky sound, so the vocabulary will revised so that the consonants have a more sensible alignment on the symbol map.
So far i've been working on it for four hours, the text is a primitive ramble warning against procrastination (eminonti).
any questions?



2 Comments:
any chance of phonetically 'describing' the pictured sentance/s?
Certainly!
The only reason I didn't in the first place was the clunky sound :)
Roughly:
hat-ovakahton vicot-an
omanapton al-binom-an
esamapti licod, samaptu vicot (now it would be "emanapti licod, manaptu vicot)
emananti epasawti.
--or (roughly)
when we speak of of tasks
we push them away (hold them afar)
to embrace [universe/mana/ineffable underlying force], embrace the task
procrastination is death
not very poetic, but hey :)
(it actually came about as me telling myself off for not doing it earlier in the construction)
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