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Conlangery #95: Weird Ideas for Auxlangs

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Oligosynthesis in Language

Oligosynthesis is when you take a small number of particles of meaning and from those you generate an entire language. We have not included, but probably could in this list, Tokipona. I don't know, does anyone have another one of these? Because I couldn't really think off the top of my head others. It often seems in these languages and picking arbitrary distinctions to start with. And second, you end up sort of throwing your hands up.

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