Talk:Isoba

Welcome to the discussion page of Isobaǃ Feel free to ask about this project here.

Chaojidage (discuss • contribs) 03:28, 24 July 2019 (UTC)


 * I think most of the people won't get the tone part. 160.32.212.38 (discuss) 21:34, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

About this Project
This book will be written to detail the Isoba constructed language, which was created in 2019. Like several other constructed languages on this site, Isoba is classified as an artlang, and as such, has the potential to facilitate language construction by serving as a model of a specific combination of linguistic features chosen by the creator for the sole purpose of producing a unique language.

Creating this Isoba book has the potential to help conlangers understand the use of tone as a grammatical feature. This is significant because the online conlanging community (on Reddit) does not use this feature as much as natural languages. Understanding grammatical tone can facilitate the understanding of the languages that use this feature, including Burmese and many African languages.

Additionally, Isoba uses a unique morphosyntactic alignment system that combines features of Austronesian and active-stative alignment. Not only will this Isoba book explain these systems clearly—thereby increasing transparency in the linguistic discussion of Austronesian languages and those which are active-stative, including Tibetan and many Native American languages—it will also prove that Austronesian and active-stative alignment can coexist. To the normal conlanger, the use of grammatical tone coupled with this unique alignment system creates a unique verb paradigm in which changing tone changes the degree of volition implied.

Isoba's tone system also helps conlangers think critically about prosody in constructed languages. Too often, a constructed language's prosody closely resembles or is identical to the native language of the conlanger. In this book, audio will be included to provide examples of naturalistic constructed prosody, in which tone and stress interact in seemingly exotic yet explainable ways.

Most of the grammar of Isoba has already been detailed online on a private document. The creation of this book will not be difficult because this online resource exists.