Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages

Today we talk about something we wish more conlangers would think about creating — isolating and analytic languages.  It seems that virtually everyone wants some polysynthetic madness or at least a complex verb paradigm, but there are ways to make isolation and analytic syntax interesting, we promise!  Also, Taila Top of Show Greeting: Hra’anh Links and Resources: Wikipedia: Isolating Language (w/ section on analytic languages) Zero role marking and word order Gbe languages (Wikipedia) Nonconcatenative morphology (Brought up in response to Mike’s question about triconsonontal roots.) Nùng Featured Conlang: Taila