Week 1

Welcome back, 

First week, first real blog.

Finally having some time to work by myself, I began by working on the fundamental building blocks of the language, which you could understand as the “phonemes.”

Phonemes, in normal speaking languages, you would understand as the sounds it has. For example, in the word “Cat,” you’d have kuh, ahh, tuh. You get what I mean, those are the separate sounds.

Mine clearly doesn’t have sound, of course- it’s a visual language. So instead, I mapped them out to have different shapes, from circles to hexagons, advanced shapes, such as arrows to crosses, and slightly abstract symbols. Of course, I will work to make sure these symbols harbors as less abstract meaning as possible

And of course, my whole project is based on having pictures for words. Given that every picture is different for every word, every picture will also be a separate “phoneme”. What a language.

Then, I decided that more “phonemes” will come along as I decide the morphemes, this time without parenthesis. They are real morphemes.

I decided to take inspiration from the Chinese grammar system. They all say Chinese is an incredibly hard language to learn, but it’s actually one of the languages with the least inflections in the world. This means that every definitive part of the sentence, is a separate word.

Inflections are changes made to the word form to give it more information. In English, a common form of inflection is in verbs, for example: to walk turns into walks for third person, walking for progressive and walked for past tense. In Chinese, we make no difference- walk is walk. 

I’m keeping this in mind, because this grammar system will mean that each and every meaning needs a different verb. It wouldn’t be walked– it would be walk + past tense word. It wouldn’t be schools, it would be school + plural word. 

Well, that’s all folks, see you next week.