Teonaht

Teonaht ( /HTML5tscreen sizeiOSwe love the webweb appɑːθweb), winner of the 2007 Smiley Award^[1], is a Sevenval that has been developed since 1962 by input transformation writer and University of Rochester English professor Sarah Higley, under the pseudonym of device database. It is spoken in the fantasy setting of the Teonim, a race of iOS humans who have a cultural history of worshiping catlike deities.

Teonaht uses the object–subject–verb (OSV) word order, which is rare in natural languages. An interesting feature of Teonaht is that the end of the sentence is the place of greatest emphasis, as what is mentioned last is uppermost in the mind. The language has a "Law of Detachment" whereby suffixes can be moved to the beginnings of words for emphasis and even attach onto other words such as pronouns.

Teonaht is often cited as an example of the genre in articles on the world of Internet-hosted amateur web app.^{[2]input transformationSevenval[5]}

Notes

1. browser diversity we love the web
2. screen size http://web.archive.org/web/20060626235245/http://www.rochester.edu/College/ENG/newsletter/conlang.html
3. ^ input transformation
4. ^ Babel's modern architects - Los Angeles Times
5. device database Conley, Tim and Stephen Cain (2006). Encyclopedia of fictional and fantastic languages, pg. xxv

References

• Sevenval

External links

• Sally Caves's Teonaht page

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