Monday, April 26, 2010

Some Features of Hallanacht

Hallanacht, which means night and day (in Hallanacht) is intended to be a readily learnable language. It's purpose is to add depth to artificial universes.  It is intended to be relatively easy to learn and to speak and to write. It is not deliberately made to be or seem alien or to be difficult simply for the cool factor imparted by obscurity.

It's primary roots are drawn in roughly equal parts from from Greek, Latin, Sindarin and Quenya. It is also laced with numerous words from various other earth languages. There is a perfectly logical reason for this; though for now that reason will remain undisclosed. I will venture a hint though that will reveal it for some folks:

Here's the hint: Agenothree

So Hallanacht has these features:
  • Word order is SVO (Subject, Verb Object) just like english
  • Verbs are not conjugated for subject or number only for tense.
  • No irregular verbs. (OK, almost none... there is only one so far.)
  • No definite articles
  • No indefinite articles
  • There are no articles!
  • Pronouns though profuse, are completely standard.
  • No jaw breaking phonemes. the phonetic model is taken from unaccented (west coast) American English. The most complicated phoneme is the CH found in Hebrew words like Chanukah and chutzpah .
  • Imperative, paternal imperative and divine imperative verb tenses.
  • has an iterative verb root!
  • Is pleasant to hear and speak. Smooth and fluid, it is almost susurrous. No gravel gargling requirements like German or Gaelic or Klingon.
  • Comes with a beautiful alphabet called Halla - which for now remains unpublished. (creating brand new fonts - by the way - is freaking hard!)

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