Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages

23/04/2012 1h 23min
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