User:Rettstatt/Kaimira Code
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Kaimira Code |
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| Pronunciation: | none | |
| Created by: | Chris Rettstatt and Tom Deja | 2007 |
| Setting and usage: | Kaimira book series and website | |
| Total speakers: | none | |
| Category (purpose): | constructed languages artistic languages fictional languages Kaimira Code |
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| Category (sources): | constructed languages a priori languages |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | none | |
| ISO 639-3: | none | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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The Kaimira Code (
in Kaimira Code) is the constructed language created and used by the character Zephyr in the fictional Kaimira universe. Designed by Chris Rettstatt to be a written language only, there is no spoken form. The Kaimira Code is composed of logograms: each symbol represents a semanteme or morpheme (a meaningful unit of language); the written language can thus be termed a morphemic script, or logogrammatical system.
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[edit] History
The Kaimira Code was first seen on the book cover of The Sky Village. Six symbols, repeated twice, were shown above the title. The symbols were repeated on the Kaimira website, with an additional four new symbols.
According to the Glossary in The Sky Village, the Kaimira Code is "a system of symbols used to access and control Kaimira science." The language, devised by Zephyr to be a futuristic computer language, was robust enough to be used as an actual written language, and so she used it to write secret messages in her journal.
[edit] Language
Star Farm Productions owns a copyright to the official dictionary and other canonical descriptions of the language.
The Kaimira Code shares some features with Chinese. The written form is symbol-based, without conjugation, declension, or other forms of inflection, with some symbols serving grammatical rather than semantic functions.
The Kaimira Code language is based on three major parts of speech: 1) noun/adjective, 2) verb/adverb, and 3) particles.
[edit] Canon
An important concept to the Kaimira Code is canonicity. Only words and grammatical forms introduced by Chris Rettstatt are considered proper, canonical Kaimira Code.
[edit] Sources of Canon
The following are works which are considered to be canon Kaimira Code and are the sources of Kaimira Code vocabulary and grammar for all other works.
- Books
- The Sky Village and the following books in the Kaimira series.
- Other Sources
- On-line and in-person text/speech by Chris Rettstatt
[edit] Phonology
The Kaimira Code is a written language. As such, there are no phonological elements.
[edit] Grammar
The Kaimira Code is an logogrammatical language, using symbols to represent meanings.
The three primary parts of speech are:
1) Form: Includes nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, and represented by a square around the symbol 2) Action: Includes verbs and adverbs, represented by a circle around the symbol 3) Connection: Includes prepositions and all non-semantic grammatical markers, represented by the absence of a square or circle around the symbol.
[edit] Writing systems
[edit] Vocabulary
Not yet available.
[edit] See also
Template:Kaimira Template:The Sky Village
[edit] References
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