User talk:Anyar

Hi, welcome to Conlang! Thanks for your edit to the Minhast page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Uberfuzzy (Talk) 16:21, 17 June 2009

Are you Nick Campanilla, the creator of Minhast?
I found out about the language from John Quijada's 2007 talk at the conlang conference. Is all the other info he mentioned available elsewhere? List of inspirations, his sample text, etc? Or are you revising the language?

Hi, I'm the creator of the Minhast language (N. Campanilla). A while back you asked me a question about the status of my conlang - I'm sorry I did not reply in a more timely fashion, but I didn't see your message until today, I still find the user interface of this wiki somewhat confusing, but I'm an easily confused person to begin with :-)

1) Regarding other sites Minhast is located: there is a very antiquated one on what used to be Freewebs.com. conlang.wikia.com is the principal site now for Minhast ("Minhast min kirim" "Minhast speech")

2) Sample text: "Kanadastim rušwappet takmissumpampi, Sikmawakaran saħpan, irriyampinnaikkušmu", i.e. "(That) Canadian tourist doesn't know what he's doing and is going to (that guy) Sikmawak who will cheat him on his purchase" I have recently added a new text passage, "Šurpēpa" ("The Strangers")

3) Inspiration: regarding the phonotactics, much was derived from Egyptian Arabic, where vocalic contractions occur frequently (Standard Arabic kitaab "book" becomes ktab in Egyptian when the preceding word ends in a vowel and the long vowel "aa" contracts to "a" when folowed by a consonant, e.g. wa-ktab-haa "and her book". The polysyntheticism is from Iroquoian Mohawk, Ainu, and Yupik Eskimoan. The functionality of the ligature "min" was derived from the Philippine languages, with much of the vocabulary coming from Ilocano stems that I sometimes mangled.

4) I am still revising the language. It is morphologically ergative, but I am extending that ergativity to the syntactic level with S/O pivots, plus additional modifications to the syntactic structures having to do with valence operations

Thanks, and if you have any additional questions, please let me know.

Anyar 19:54, January 24, 2011 (UTC)Nick