Gnorbaran
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| Conlang | Gnorbaran |
| Author | Chris Johnston |
| Year Began | 2005 |
| Language Type - by purpose - by source | diachronic conlang naturalistic a priori conlang |
| Typology - morphology - word order | agglutinating VSO |
| Lexicon Size | 140 |
| Etymologies | No |
| Grammar | Yes |
| Sample Texts | No |
| Primer | No |
Gnorbaran is a fictional diachronic language and was designed by Chris Johnston. It is written with a unique script (that has yet to be fully devised).
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Language sources
None consciously. My knowledge of some of the grammatical cases of the Finno-Ugric language family undoubtedly influenced some of the construction.
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Design principles
The purpose of creating this language was to write a language for a fictional race of gnomes. I wanted to make a mechanical yet naturalistic highly agglutinating language, that was aesthetically lilting and quick-paced, but somewhat of a mouthfull at the same time.
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Interesting features
Gnorbaran morphology essentially consists of stems and affixes. There are no real distinct parts of speech. The language is largely based on bisyllable roots.
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