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Tipikyero (revival)

Page history last edited by Matthew McVeagh 2 years, 11 months ago

Tipikyero (revival)

 

Matthew McVeagh | my conlangs

 

South China Sea Austronesian geofictional altlang.

 

The one conlang I started in my teens that I might want to revive would be Tipikyero. The latter looks a bit like Indonesian, which I learnt some of around that time. I intended it to be a 'typical East Asian language' but of course there is no such thing as there are several language families in that area and superficial similarities aside they cover quite a variety of phonologies, grammars and lexical morphologies. Probably an East Asian conlang aiming for the most common traits would be tonal, mono- or disyllabic, have numeral classifiers and be written at least sometimes in Chinese characters. But I'm not currently interested in using tonality or Hanzi so I don't want to go down that route.

 

So instead despite its name I will make a revived Tipikyero not a 'typical' (majority-tendency) East Asian conlang, but one of a specific kind: Austronesian. It will have simple inflection but otherwise be highly analytic. An obvious feature to include is so-called Austronesian/Philippine voice/alignment/focus/trigger system. I would set it on a fictional island between mainland China, Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam and it would effectively be a geofictional altlang in a timeline where there was such an island and the Austronesian family had spread there as well as into the Philippines further south.

 

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