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Egyptian-inspired conlang (Is this list still alive?)



Anyone out there? :)

I've just started a very rudimentary conlang primarily inspired by (Ancient) Egyptian, with 
some stuff from other Afro-asiatic languages (perhaps particularly Semitic, if for no other 
reason than info on Semitic languages seem more readily accessible!).

I'm developing it principally for a fiction project, wanting a language that has a vaguely 
Egyptian/Semitic flavour but that is distinctly not any real current or past language.  Still, I 
expect to take a lot of Egyptian roots and build my own phonology and grammar around 
them (though vaguely reflecting some real bits of real grammar where that works for me.

For the moment, at least, I'm calling my new conlang "Dashratic" in honour of it being "not 
Egyptian" -- historical Egyptian kmt being the "black land", contrasting with dSr.t "red 
land" = desert.  I've essentially added rather arbitrary vowels and tacked on what will be 
my standard nominative singular ending -u (I read somewhere that this is a possible 
Proto-Afro-asiatic nom.sg. ending, so why not?) to create a feminine noun "dashratu", 
/daS.'4a:.tu/, theoretically based on a (masculine nominative singular) adjective "dashru", 
/'da:S.4u/.  (I haven't really decided on rules for syllable stress, but have just been 
deciding to see where I put it when pronouncing the word without thinking about it, and 
then "refining" my phonology by marking stressed vowels as long after the fact. :)

So far I have a very simple declensional structure for nouns and adjectives, with masculine 
and feminine genders, singular and plural numbers, and 3 cases: nominative, oblique, and 
genitive. Having been mainly concerned with constructing names and such, I haven't 
worried too much about verbs ... yet.

I suppose at some point I will construct a later/daughter language to create a little 
Dashratic family (a "not Coptic" from my "not Egyptian" ;) but I haven't worried about that 
yet either.

Cheers,
Carl