{"id":1,"date":"2012-05-02T05:11:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T05:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-05-01T23:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T05:43:30","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"ylyetohye&#8217;yo he&#8217; enrr\u00e1yon t\u02bc\u00e1! (Greetings! [Lit. Truthfully, (gladly) I am listening!])"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This my first ConLang which I have called\u00a0<strong>rr\u00e1p &#8216;ay\u00e1\u00a0<\/strong>which translates as &#8220;Voice&#8217;s Child.&#8221; \u00a0 In creating\u00a0<strong>rr\u00e1p &#8216;ay\u00e1<\/strong>\u00a0I have chosen features of world languages and a couple other ConLangs that I found appealing and tweaked them slightly to suit. \u00a0You may recognize features of French,\u00a0Gaelic, Hidatsa, Mandarin, and\u00a0Warlpiri, my own native Canadian English, as well as a few from Tolkien&#8217;s Sindarin and Quenya, and Dr. Paul Frommer&#8217;s Na&#8217;vi.<\/p>\n<p>Phonetically and phonologically I wanted to include sounds and sound combinations that don&#8217;t exist in english. \u00a0Ejectives, word\/syllable initial nasalised stops, trills, aspirated liquids and velar fricatives to name a few as well as complex consonant clusters.<\/p>\n<p>In developing the vocabulary I wanted to place an emphasis on the voice and sound and as such the language is somewhat onomatopoeic. \u00a0I imagined the first speaker of rr\u00e1p &#8216;ay\u00e1 marveling at the sound of his voice and creating words based on the sounds things made.<\/p>\n<p>It has a mixed morphology, incorporating polysynthetic, agglutinating, fusional and isolating morphologies. \u00a0It also includes both infixation and (in the Nominative Case marking) circumfixation as part of its morphology.<\/p>\n<p>Due to heavy use of case marking, the word order is relatively free with a few exceptions. \u00a0Obviously I couldn&#8217;t create a language that didn&#8217;t break its own rules every once in awhile!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy your stay here and that you pick up a few lovely sounds to add to your day!<\/p>\n<p>yly\u00e1y\u00e1ohye&#8217;yo\u031dk\u02bc\u00e9 rr\u00e1 t\u02bc\u00e1! (Farewell! [Lit. Truthfully, (I am glad) we have spoken!])<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This my first ConLang which I have called\u00a0rr\u00e1p &#8216;ay\u00e1\u00a0which translates as &#8220;Voice&#8217;s Child.&#8221; \u00a0 In creating\u00a0rr\u00e1p &#8216;ay\u00e1\u00a0I have chosen features of world languages and a couple other ConLangs that I found appealing and tweaked them slightly to suit. \u00a0You may recognize features of French,\u00a0Gaelic, Hidatsa, Mandarin, and\u00a0Warlpiri, my own native Canadian English, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tsoyona.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}