The Phoeronitic Con-lang project began in 2006, as a new direction to my ultimately life-long effort to produce a constructed language that employed a satisfactory balance between syntax, semantics, and aesthetics.  Major influences were Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Syriac, Georgian, and Mongolian; minor influences were Greek, Russian, Japanese, Hungarian, Estonian, Turkish, and my three native languages, English, French, and German (which I include as ‘unintended bias’).

The first draft of the Grammar of Phoeronitic was completed in the summer of 2007, and was typeset in LaTeX.  Over the next few weeks, I will be importing it here in summarized form for everyone’s review.

The Lexicon was never completed, but due to the unification of syntax and semantics (a linguistic feature entirely unique to Phoeronitic), word-building is inherent to the grammar and can be done on-the-fly with minimal reflection.  One of the contributions from the community I look forward to most is word-building, and I anticipate some lively debate as to why a given root more accurately represents one abstraction over another.