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Conlangery #51: Language History

Conlangery Podcast

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Akana Languages

The only truly weird part of this language to me are the speech act markers. Only because we have one Haya, which means the sentence is performative. That is the sentence constitutes the very act it describes fulfilling itself. So in some sense, it's announcing the performativity. I'm just still not sure that it's natural to have special syntax announcing it.

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