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The development of my language has definitely been sporadic, but I think I'm comfortable enough with the phonology and name of the language for those to stay constant. I still have it on GitHub, though under a different name, naturally. Also, most of that repository is (as of posting) inaccurate, though that should change soon.
The language is going to incorporate (along with non-expert friendly explanations that seem to be lacking at present):
- a variant of intuitionistic logic motivated by the logical paradoxes, such as the liar paradox, Curry's paradox, and Berry's paradox that provides a semantically sound framework where these don't lead to contradictions or triviality. I tried paraconsistent logic before but decided true contradictions undermined the meaning of "not".
- the geometric algebra as a more powerful set of concepts for describing space and physical phenomena.
- other weird logic things as I come to them.
As for what hasn't changed:
- Everything is lexically and syntactically unambiguous, even when whispering.
- The grammar is very simple.
- The semantics, though unusual and relatively abstract at first, are designed to provide short, useful words that don't have good equivalents in other languages.
As always, I appreciate feedback, or things that you'd like to see translated.
Phonotactics, phonology, and orthography
Every word consists of a head and tail, which it meant to make word boundaries obvious. The head uses voiceless/aspirated versions of its phonemes, and the tail uses voiced/tenuis versions. The Latin orthography is purely phonemic, with an apostrophe <'> to indicate the head-tail division where ambiguous. IPA is also acceptable. Here's a pronunciation table:
letter | head | tail |
---|---|---|
k | k | g |
t | t | d |
p | p | b |
g | ŋ̊ | ŋ |
n | n̊ | n |
m | m̊ | m |
x | x | ɣ |
r | ɹ̝̊ | ɹ̝ |
z | ʃ | ʒ |
l | ɬ | ɮ |
s | s | z |
f | ɸ | β |
u | ɯ̊~ů | ɯ~u |
o | ɤ̊~o̊ | ɤ~o |
a | å | a |
e | e̊ | e |
i | i̊ | i |
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