Kalusa
From Langmaker
| Conlang | Kalusa |
| Author | Various |
| Year Began | 2006 |
| Language Type | collaborative language |
| Lexicon Size | 181 |
| Etymologies | No |
| Grammar | No |
| Sample Texts | No |
| Primer | No |
Kalusa, a collaborative language, was developed by various authors. It is the result of a project which was begun by Gary Shannon.
Language sources
English, Indo-European, Latin, Greek, Hawaiian, Malagasy, Amharic.
Design principles
The Kalusa project was launched on May 22, 2006. Gary Shannon created an interactive site, and added four sentences with four translations. There were no interlinears, no definitions of any kind, and no grammar. At that point, visitors to the site began to build upon the language by adding their own sentences with their own English translations. In order to determine which sentences were good Kalusa, and which weren't, visitors to the site voted on proposed sentences by voting on whether the sentences were good, merely acceptable, or bad. In this way, the language has grown, developing its own unique grammar, and the corpus which originally contained four sentences has, at the time of writing (May 30, 2006) over 1,500 sentences.
Interest of others
The Kalusa project has generated a lot of interest in the conlanging community. It's hard to estimate how many people are working on Kalusa, since submissions are anonymous, and any visitor can add to the project, but a good estimate would be that ten to twenty people at one time or another have contributed.
External link
http://kalusa.fiziwig.com/ - BROKEN
