#lcc10 Sidney Welsh - Khơlīvh Ɯr: A Study of the Interaction between Language and Culture

details & slides: https://conlang.org/lcc10/#welsh
speaker: sid@sidlangs.com, https://wiki.sidlangs.com/wiki/LCC10

In this talk, I will describe my language Khơlīvh and how it connects to its world, through the lens of speculative and naturally observable phenomena, while describing its sounds, interesting features, evolution, writing, and culture. As an experiment playing with the relationship between naturalism and artistic ideas, I’ll show how I’ve tried to emulate the concepts of naturalistic culture and world in a creative and thought-provoking way, and how its development mirrored that of its changes in-world. Khơlīvh is a strongly head-final language with a phonology full of vibrant, odd vowels and harsh velars, using some aspects of phonemic stress and vowel length. Khơlīvh employs a complicated, nonstandardized, and roundabout writing system with hundreds of logographic signs, and has multiple dialects with their own unique features. Along with speculation on the classification of languages and the meaning of diversity across languages, I hope to present why (for me) bad systems are sometimes the best ones and how the aesthetic of a language goes far beyond the sounds, the words, or the writing system.

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