Note: Feel free to skip to paragraph 5 to avoid the conlangery.

Almost the entirety of Tuesday was spent working on Van Narvadæsi. I sat down and started redoing my working document from the top down, examining everything and doing my best to make sure it was accurate and up to date. A lot of time was spent on formatting alone, making things ( Read more... )

Over the past few days, I've returned to working on my overhaul and the updating of my working document for Van Narvadæsi. I've rewritten and added to my "primer" that I posted previously. I hope I've clarified some of the vocabulary (both real and invented) used, and I've done my best to include examples of each thing mentioned. It's still not ( Read more... )

its šionsi em otačo ( Read more... )

So tonight, the written form of Van Narvadæsi got finalized (I hope) by way of a font being created for it. I've been wanting to do this for a long, long time, but only tonight did I find a way to create it that was easy to use. Last year, I spent several hours bashing my head against FontStruct's font creation software. It's really powerful and ( Read more... )

I'm trying to light a fire under my ass to work on Van Narvadæsi a bit more (I have a little over three months to meet my "v0.2.0 in six months" goal), and I have become unhappy with the way my working document is looking, so I decided to start fresh (kinda) and write a quick and dirty primer on the language with the very basics that have been ( Read more... )

Started work today on version 0.1.6 of the Van Narvadæsi reference grammar.  I'm mainly in a "maintenance and editing" phase right now.  There's no new mechanics being inserted or removed, but some stuff is being updated, and more stuff is being considered.  This post is mainly me simply making note of the ongoing process of the conlang, so feel ( Read more... )

Note: As with most conlang-focused posts, I tried to make this as readable as possible to the non-linguistic types. Not sure how well I accomplish this, though.

I haven't been doing a lot with Van Narvadæsi, but I have begun to tackle the overhaul of the written language. It's slowly getting to a point where I'm more and more happy with it. I want ( Read more... )

Van Narvadæsi is in a state of flux right now as I play more and more with how sentences are structured. The biggest change is the shift from a nominative-accusative system to an ergative-absolutive system. To explain this, first a reminder of some things you probably forgot outside of your grammar classes in school.

An intransitive verb is one ( Read more... )

I've been doing quite a bit of work on Van Narvadæsi, but on paper it doesn't look like a whole lot. I try to do these things carefully, mulling over a certain implementation of a bit of the grammar for about a week before writing it down and playing with it a little until I'm satisfied. Most of the work lately has been on sentence structure, word ( Read more... )

Here are some examples of how noun phrases work in Van Narvadæsi. First, similarly to English, articles are required for nouns. In English, for example you say "the swan drifted across the lake" and not "swan drifted across lake." It's the same for Van Narvadæsi.

• ono sora
  the cat
  
• ino sora
  a cat

If it is a plural noun, the article and noun must agree ( Read more... )