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Interview with Kenan Kigunda

Conlangery Podcast

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The Origins of Zevi Writing

Zevi is written in a sort of an unusual way that hides certain distinctions and also you had the post positions develop the shorthand. So I think this is true countries where like there still is some level of dialect continuum but it's much more normalized than has been in the past. And so I think that was my original source of inspiration of like saying, okay, like there's going to as we look at the nation building which happens be a power broker which wants to make their dialect the uniform across the entire language sphere. The other thing which started pulling the destruction is wanting to really have the same type of like dialectal variation that we do see to some extent even in English.

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