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qiihoskehI spent a few hours to day working on C2. C2 is also known as VAN for Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns, although it's not accurate: Adjectives includes all univalent verbs and Verbs includes prepositions. The goal of C2 is to make a Lin-type concise conlang, even if it's mostly different from Lin. I'm not sure how to present it in detail, but here's an outline.
It's written with 90 symbols plus punctuation. For convenience, ASCII characters are substituted. Pronunciation isn't known, but the symbols might be treated as a syllabary.
The 52 letters occur in pairs and represent content word sets, each set (potentially) containing a verb, adjective, and noun root. Each content word is prefixed by a special symbol which specifies which lexical class (V, A, N) the word belongs to and what its syntactical function is. The functions are noun, attributive, resultative, adjunctive, and predicative. 3 of the 15 possible combinations don't occur and lexical noun functioning as syntactical noun is unmarked.
Conjunctions consist of & (ampersand) followed by a single letter.
Single digits are used as pronouns when prefixed like nouns. Cardinal numbers are strings of digits prefixed like adjectives.
There are a number of single symbol suffixes, used for tense, definiteness, etc. and a few other symbols.
Proper names (and any borrowed word) are enclosed in quotes and otherwise work like content words.
"Caesar"|dc 9*[fr%^0. "With Caesar leader, we shall fear nothing."
It's written with 90 symbols plus punctuation. For convenience, ASCII characters are substituted. Pronunciation isn't known, but the symbols might be treated as a syllabary.
The 52 letters occur in pairs and represent content word sets, each set (potentially) containing a verb, adjective, and noun root. Each content word is prefixed by a special symbol which specifies which lexical class (V, A, N) the word belongs to and what its syntactical function is. The functions are noun, attributive, resultative, adjunctive, and predicative. 3 of the 15 possible combinations don't occur and lexical noun functioning as syntactical noun is unmarked.
Conjunctions consist of & (ampersand) followed by a single letter.
Single digits are used as pronouns when prefixed like nouns. Cardinal numbers are strings of digits prefixed like adjectives.
There are a number of single symbol suffixes, used for tense, definiteness, etc. and a few other symbols.
Proper names (and any borrowed word) are enclosed in quotes and otherwise work like content words.
"Caesar"|dc 9*[fr%^0. "With Caesar leader, we shall fear nothing."
