Conlangery #84: Delason
February 18, 2013 2 Comments
George and Mike have a wonderful conversation with Nizar Habash, creator of Delason.
Featured Conlang: Delason
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I was a little disappointed that you didn’t talk much about the morphology of Delason, or give some on-air examples of it. I was surprised and excited to hear about a conlang from a native Arabic speaker, since so many conlangers are so interested in the Semitic triliteral root, and I was curious as to Delason morphology. But I guess I can skim that 25 pages of grammar!
Unfortunately, I’m afraid Nizar didn’t go with triliteral roots. IIRC it’s mostly standard prefixing and suffixing.