#lcc10 Yoshi Smart, Georgia Stavros, and the Dyngā Community - Sā Dyngā—Living Indo-European Panlanging

details & slides: https://conlang.org/lcc10/#smart
speaker: YouTube @Yoshimidsu, https://yoshimidsu.jimdofree.com/

Dyngā is a project undertaken since September 2021 by a Discord community (discord.gg/PcVzhZT4rB) comprised primarily of amateur linguists and language enthusiasts. It aims to form an Indo-European panlanguage informed by both PIE and all branches (especially modern) of the Indo-European language family, a top-down diachronic and bottom-up synchronic, syncretic approach. We now have a small but stable speakerbase of learners, and about 4,500 coined lemmas and affixes.

That the community is mostly made of amateurs is vitally important to counter subconscious scientific prescriptivism of trained or training linguists (such as myself) with how layfolk see and experience their own languages, which is afterall the majority speakerbase. This allows the language creators (i.e. grammar and vocabulary writers) to continuously update the language whenever learners and speakers of Dyngā perceive a feature to be unnatural to them.

On the flipside, the linguists can use historical knowledge of IE to reconcile diverse features into simplified paradigms, and to specially design formations of parts of speech that are most common across the entire language family, explainable by common historical origin or neological surface similarities (e.g. SD byšmad ← Alb. gisht i madh; Arm. բութ մատ (butʿ mat); Ru. большо́й па́лец; Brezh. biz-meud; Beng. বুড়া আঙ্গু ল (buṛa aṅgul); Fr. pouce).

We have a YouTube channel (Dyngās Kanāl @dyngaskanal398), and create charts, short texts or even music on various topics that interest us, the speakers.

References

Dyngā documentation: https://yoshimidsu.jimdofree.com/dyng%C4%81

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