My world...and welcome to it.

The main purpose of this site is to present the Kash language, an invented, or constructed, language, a "conlang". It came into being as an adjunct to a science-fiction story I once planned out but never wrote... and the language proved to be the more interesting, so it lived on and developed, while the story retired to a corner of my imagination.

As for me, I'm a linguist by training, if only briefly by employment....I specialized in the comparative/historical linguistics of Indonesia (admittedly, to the casual observer, an obscure field), and at one point was reasonably fluent in Bahasa Indonesia-- whose influence shows up, of course, in Kash. At some later time, I hope to put up a bit more information about myself, my interests, and who knows what else.

Sende Kaç - The Kash Language

The Kash are one of two(oops) three intelligent, civilized species who inhabit a distant fictional planet, Chindu (that's the pronunciation in English; the preferred Romanization Cindu will be used hereafter); for a little bit about the planet and its people, go here. The remainder of this site is devoted to the grammar of the language.

• The Alphabet - hakanga
• Phonology - elamangosende
• Morphology - kotaç i hambiyaç

1. Nouns
2. Verbs
3. Numbers & 4. "pieces"

• Syntax
• Gwr language(s) - preliminary notes
• Añakrangota the Kash-English dictionary and Supplement
• Texts in Kash (just two at present; the graphic may be a slow download-- sorry!)
• Kash marriage ceremony olama cetre
• Locowromo story 2009 bilingual story, the longest piece of Kash prose yet
• What time is it? fiyan aroni?
• Cultural notes: How to tell if you're a Kash or a Gwr; even more at General cultural notes; and still more at Dr. Zahar's Ethnographical Questionnaire

And eventually, but not quite yet:

• A little linguistic history - picikni amavangi sendekale

The Lañ-lañ people and their language, Prevli

• Introduction (not yet)
• Prevli phonology (.pdf)
• morphology
• syntax
• wordlist

Miscellany:

• Finally, some ill-chosen words
• Recipes
• Southeast Asia in Ill Bethisad
• Indonesian linguistics

Comments are welcome; e-mail me at: rfmilly(at)msn(dot)com

Copyright © 2001 Roger F. Mills
Created October 2001
URL: https://cinduworld.tripod.com/contents.htm