This is the origin page of KomLang, my ambitious dream of an international language and machine interlingua. It is a constructed, artificial, planned language with the goal of being everything to everyone.
Of course, I'm not smart enough to pull it off myself. But I am smart enough to realize that if a common language is ever to be achieved, it won't be done by one person (even if he is smarter than me.) Hence KomLang, a language to be created by a community.
A Kommon Language, a Komputer Language, a Kommunity Language: KomLang.
No. But it would be nice to have one.
The world is getting by just fine without KomLang, and any other international or computer langauge for that matter. But constructed lanagues keep getting invented, because none of them can really do the job.
The major obstacle is that if one language gets picked, that means the other languages aren't good enough, which alienates all the folks who put in the effort to learn/construct that language
What we need is a language where everyone can get a say in its construction, so we don't piss anyone off. Unfortunately, people who make up languages tend to be a solitary lot, and its a rare person who lets someone else develop "his" language.
Luckily, I'm not linguistically arrogant. I know there are lots of folks out there better than me at making up languages, and I welcome anyone who wants to develop KomLang.
Priorities/Theory
1. Computer recognizable/understandable
1. Easy sound recog
2. No homonyms
3. Easy breaks
2. People useable
1. Limited sounds
2. Full expression
3. Few irregularities
4. Few grammar rules
5. Concise
1. Burden on the speaker to be precise 2. Burden on the speaker to be understandable 3. Easily understood after minimum effort
1. Double redundancy 2. One word, one meaning - no multiple definitions (run out of time, run the trail) 3. One meaning, one (KomLang) word- no synonyms
1. Universal for most common/necessary 2. Most easily distinguished 3. Weird for advanced concepts/words 5. Opposites - reverse and change vowels for easy learn/recog 6. Similar concepts (much, more) sound similar 4. Omnomonapeia - pop - p = quick attack, l = liquid, o = somber, me = somber
1. Grammar/Suffixes 2. Prounouns 3. Verbs 4. Nouns 5. Preps 6. Mods
1. Simple construct/learn for immediate use 1a Informal 1b. Dialects 2. Clear construction 3. Most important first 4. Flexible for all constructions 5. Simplest grammar construction - math formula for basic words vs # of words 6. Advanced concepts
4 base vowels: AEIO (U is "saved" for future expansion 1 indicator H,Y,W H= "short" Y = "long" W = Special Vowels are comprised of Base Vowel + Indicator A ah = short a, like "bat" = "baht" ay = long a, like "bait" = "bayt" aw = special a, like "bought" = "bawt" E eh = short e, like "bet" = "beht" ey = long e, like "beet" = "beyt" ew = speical e, like "boot" = "bewt" I ih = short i, like "bit" = "biht" iy = long i, like "bite" = "biyt" iw = special i, like "but" = "biwt" O oh = short o, like "boat" = "boht" oy = long o, like "boy" = "boy" ow = special o, like "bow" = "bow"
Consonants are just like English consants with the following exceptions:
k is always a hard k like kangaroo c is "ch" like church = "curc" x is "sh" like "shush" = "xux" r is "ng" like "sing" is = "sir" There are no blends, gl, fl, sm etc are not allowed.
Syllables are always 4 letters long. Consonant, base vowel, indicator vowel, consonant beyc = beach seyr = sing You can not have a vowel at the beginning or end, or a syllable that is less or more than 4 letters long. Stressed syllables are in capitals BEYC. They are said louder, higher pitch, and slower. Unstressed syllables are in lowercase: beyc: They are said softer, lower pitch and faster. Stressed indicates a root of a word, unstressed syllables are for endings, like englishin -ing, -ed, 's etc.
Priority order for assigning syllables is: 1. Grammar/Suffixes 2. Prounouns 3. Verbs 4. Nouns 5. Preps 6. Mods
Me You It Exist Change Qualities Location Size Compounds Things you point to: rock, water Modifiers: Red, blue etcs Philosphy: Truth, beauty
Order spoken is: Verb, subject, object Chuck hit the ball = Hit Chuck Ball Modifiers come after word it modifies Chuck quickly hit the blue ball = Hit Quickly Chuck Ball Blue