Forum:Conlang Featuring

Discuss which one to feature on the front page here

EmperorZelos 22:33, March 15, 2010 (UTC)

Nominations:
Nominate a language by adding it to the bottom of this list:

Tyrehzzehn
Jnvlv 23:53, March 15, 2010 (UTC)

Hi
I am going to finish my language, Hi, within a couple of weeks.

Here is what it boasts:
 * it's ologosynthetic, but in a pragmatic way -- Hi is not a "philosophical language" or anything of that sort.


 * it has an interesting sentence structure, based on repeating roots to show relationship between words in a sentence. E.g. an English sentence "Yesterday my brother saw a black dog", when translated to Hi, would have structure similar to "brother-saw saw-dog dog-black saw-yesterday brother-mine". The tuples can be put in any order since they are linked not by their order but by repeating the words (saw, dog, brother).


 * Instead of prepositions and cases, it relies on verb combinations. E.g. to say "I give you a book", you actually say something like "I-give you-take take-book give-yields-take". Here "yields" is the link between two verbs that indicates the relationship between them.


 * Finally, Hi looks and sounds nice (nothing too difficult to pronounce), has it's own cool-looking script, and a full vocabulary (not posted yet in it's entirety).

Adagio burner 00:48, March 17, 2010 (UTC)

Delang
Delang is also about finished. Only minor additions may happen to the grammar and syntax, and except for the letter Z, all words from my private dictionary are now on-line.

Koppadasao 21:10, March 20, 2010 (UTC)

Dangin Nira
I was also impressed with Dangin Nira, I think it's very thoroughly developed and deserves to be featured.

Adagio burner 18:02, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

Votes
Vote here for one of the nominies, the votes may be changed at any time until the last day

I think Tyrehzzehn needs more work before it can be featured. Right now it does not look complete.


 * 1) Hi,
 * 2) Dangin Nira, and
 * 3) Delang all get my vote.

Adagio burner 18:07, March 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * May I ask you atleast to numerise them on which you place the highest in case a tie between several arises?


 * EmperorZelos 19:48, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Adiagio, that Tyrehzzehn needs more work before qualifying for a feature.

Both Hi and Dangin Nira qualifies as being well done. But as Hi is rather unaccessible verbally I don't find it as attractive as Dangin Nira, which has an elegant and easy pronunciation. However, a complex grammar makes Dangin Nira less attractive for me, but I guess it would easily be within the grasp of German, Icelandic and Russian speakers.

My votes go therefore
 * 1) Delang
 * 2) Dangin Nira

Koppadasao 18:23, March 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Could you numerise the votes you cast so we know which one you take above the other in case of a tie arising between one or more?


 * EmperorZelos 19:48, March 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Done. Koppadasao 19:52, March 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you and good luck with getting your lang featured for a month


 * EmperorZelos 19:56, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

I vote for Dangin Nira, it's a really cool lang. It looks and sounds different than anything I have heardJnvlv 01:01, March 25, 2010 (UTC)

Well, I'm going to have to go ahead and vote for my own Dangin Nira, for while Hi and Delang both look very interesting, they seem a tad inaccessible. Perhaps if Adagio burner and Koppadasao could give some examples of basic conversation for their languages? That's really where you start learning a language, is by learning useful phrases, then learning simple grammar and so forth.

Here are my votes: Werothegreat 04:29, March 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Dangin Nira
 * 2) Delang
 * 3) Hi