Listen "Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages"
Episode Synopsis
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
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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