Ceqli (pronounced ) is a constructed language created by Rex F. May. It was originally inspired by Loglan. Its name is a blend of the names "Chinese" and "English", expressing the fact that the grammar of Ceqli is mostly based on those two languages. On the isolation-synthesis spectrum, Ceqli is closer to isolating than synthetic; there is no inflection, but Ceqli does derive new words by compounding.
Ceqli began as an attempt to improve the mo...
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Ceqli (pronounced ) is a constructed language created by Rex F. May. It was originally inspired by Loglan. Its name is a blend of the names "Chinese" and "English", expressing the fact that the grammar of Ceqli is mostly based on those two languages. On the isolation-synthesis spectrum, Ceqli is closer to isolating than synthetic; there is no inflection, but Ceqli does derive new words by compounding.
Ceqli began as an attempt to improve the morphology of Loglan. The morphology of Ceqli is designed to make it easy to tell where one morpheme leaves off and another begins. Every morpheme or root word begins with one or more stops, fricatives and affricates, and the rest of the morpheme consists of vowels, semivowels, nasals and liquids.
Given the special morpheme-shape, Ceqli "finds" vocabulary by searching through languages, the ones with most speakers first, for words that fit Ceqli's rules. For example, "biq" (pronounced /biￅﾋ/) is the word for "ice", borrowed directly from...
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