Blaken
This is the language of the Blakenian people. This language is young but it is eager to grow and bloom into a beautiful network of human thought.
Blaken Manifesto
- What happens matters more than who someone did it
- Blaken reflects a worldview of non-attachment, clarity of intention, compassion, and awareness of mind
- Blaken avoids ego anchoring
- Blaken sees events as fluctuanting and not rigid objects
- In Blaken possession is a relationship, not control
- Events are lived, not classified
- Blaken aligns its grammar with emotional intelligence
- Blaken exists and let other languages exist
- Blaken changes like the tides and the phases of the moon
- Blaken does not believe in pronouns, because there are open classes
- Blaken allows the expression of frustration and deep sadness in a centered way
- In Blaken one should resist automatic moral judgement, speech, and identity
Glossing conventions
| Abbrev | Meaning |
|---|---|
| AGT | volitional / attentive subject (-blum) |
| PAT | non-volitional / receptive subject (-prum) |
| LOC | locative / internal postposition (tin) |
| DAT | dative / lative postposition (os) |
| COM | comitative / associative postposition (to) |
| ABL | ablative / source / separative postposition (ex) |
| IPFV.DIR | imperfective direct evidential (-ken) |
| PFV.DIR | perfective direct evidential (-tan) |
| IPFV.INF | imperfective inferential evidential (-bu) |
| PFV.INF | perfective inferential evidential (-tu) |
| REP | reportative evidential (-bla) |
| NEG | negation (free pu or bound -wɨ) |
| ADJ | relational adjectivizer (-ko) |
| RES | resultative state (-blom) |
| POT | latent potential / affordance (-blø) |
| ADV | adverbial (-vom / reduplication) |
| EVT | event nominal / bare root used eventively |
| EXIST | situative / locative existence predicate (dom-) |
| APPEAR | inherent / apparent state predicate (om-) |