Gliese 1337

Intellectual musings on Life, Languages, and Computer Programming.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

A Phonology Without Phonemic Consonants

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There are languages that have been analyzed as lacking phonemic vowels, with all vowels being completely predictable from the consonant stri...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Thoughts on Sign Language Design

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Previously: General Thoughts on Writing Signs  and A System for Coding Handshapes One of the problems with designing a constructed sign la...
Monday, September 5, 2016

General Thoughts on Writing Signs

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In my last post , I have begun to develop an essentially featural writing system for an as-yet undeveloped sign language. Featural writing s...

A System for Coding Handshapes

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Sign languages are cool, and conlangs are cool, but there is a serious dearth of constructed sign languages. Or at least, there is a dearth ...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Possession & State in Valaklwuuxa

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When there are no nouns, how do you manage genitive constructions? Somewhat surprisingly, the answer turns out to be "the same way yo...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Questions & Deixis in Valaklwuuxa

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I have been translating the Universal Speed Curriculum into Valaklwuuxa . This is a very simple conversational script; it's not intende...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Path & Manner in Valaklwuuxa

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How languages describe motion is a particularly interesting subfield of verbal lexicology. In some languages, verbs of motion are even a dis...
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