Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages

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Today we talk about something we wish more conlangers would think about creating — isolating and analytic languages.  It seems that virtually everyone wants some polysynthetic madness or at least a complex verb paradigm, but there are ways to make isolation and analytic syntax interesting, we promise!  Also, Taila

Top of Show Greeting: Hra’anh

Links and Resources:

  • Wikipedia: Isolating Language (w/ section on analytic languages)
  • Zero role marking and word order
  • Gbe languages (Wikipedia)
  • Nonconcatenative morphology (Brought up in response to Mike’s question about triconsonontal roots.)
  • Nùng

    • Featured Conlang: Taila

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