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Piatra Galbenei, Apuseni Mountains, Bihor county, Romania
2005, Razvan Antonescu |
Last year I
presented a slice of the first steps toward the completion of my conlang project. So far the effort has taken £80 and roughly 1,100 elapsed days since embarking on the obscurantist desire in July 2011. In a way it was a reaction to the banal commonality of
Romlangs and the impressive but not quite daring enough attempts at creating Indo-European daughter languages - often derived from the well documented Proto-Germanic or Proto-Slavic. I was attracted to the quirkiness of Albanian (the word for
shore semantically drifting to mountain, etc) coupled with the general murky history of languages in the Balkans - only Albanian and Greek, and (in some theories) Armenian survive. The latter two are well attested back into antiquity, so the uncertainty of Albanian's origins and development left space for creativity. I like to think of this as a reverse-
Brithenig - what if the Dacians/Romanians weren't romanised, compared to Brithenig's what if the Welsh/Britons were romanised.
Well, now I can show what a solid year of ripping up and starting again twice has finally yielded.
Also: I underestimated how long it would take to write this all up, so I've missed my traditional conlang date of October 25th. Eleven days isn't that late.
Note: Much of this is now deprecated. Don't calculate any interplanetary flight manoeuvres with this.
