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Conlangery #128: Lingua Philosophica

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Del Garneau's Phonics

In Del Garneau's language there are no gender based differences and pronouns. The closest thing you're going to get to gender is in a distinction between things like mother and father, which in his philosophical system, translate literally as biggatter haggale. And that's about it. It's really actually hard to express gender distinctions in this language. We have a guess as to what the vowels are, but we're not totally sure because we have to sort of think about,. okay, what was his native dialect and what would be the phonology there. What does tell me what does F represent? That's a really good question.

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