Tableau Language

Matthew McVeagh | my conlangs

Which only describes situations rather than events, and so does not need verbs.

Another language with no verbs, on top of all the other languages with no verbs.

Tableau Language just describes situations – frozen tableaus where nothing happens, rather than stories where there is action. It would be good for describing a scene, and could be specialised for giving information about different aspects of how things look, without involving anything doing anything either on its own or to anything else. It would contain plenty of locational adpositions and descriptive adjectives. In order to include descriptions of different parts of a scene, and their interrelations, it would have a complex set of conjunctions and anaphoric pronouns.