Ƿıdse

Ƿıdse (or Pidse) is a conlang based on Ygyde, an IAL created by Andrew Nowicki and Patrick Hassel-Zein and incorporating some suggestions from the conlang list.

The languages is spoken in an unlikely future Australia where, due to the fact that so many people don't speak the same language, a dialect of Ygyde is used for people to communicate, and becomes a language in its own right, suffering from a rapid series of changes. Ygyde's native alphabet is not adopted for simplicity; instead, the Roman alphabet is used. But it proves to be unsuitable to writing the derivative laguage (Early Widse) and so it, too, has some evolutions of its own, resulting in a rather different-looking script. As in its own history, it begins as an auxilliary language, I've decided to add it to the leagues of IALs vying for the crown that English will maintain for some time to come.

This website provides a brief introduction to Ƿıdse, showing the Grand Master Plan which transforms Ygyde into Ƿıdse, a short dictionary, and a brief outline of the grammar. No knowledge of Ygyde is assumed. As more of Ƿıdse is developed, and subject to free time, this website will expand; until then, enjoy.

A few notes

Though it dervies from a taxonomic language, Ƿıdse itself is not. It is perhaps more transparent than English, but certainly not anywhere near Ygyde in this regard.

The language is highly inflexional and developing more inflexions by the minute. This is in stark contrast to Ygyde and most IALs.

In short, any similarities between Ygyde and Ƿıdse (other than their both being IALs) are entirely co-incidental. Any mutual intelligibility between the two is unintended and should be reported immediately.

As the language is spoken in Australia, it's suffered from some changes from the original. Yovc, the term for 'drought' doubles as that for 'El Niño' (something which may not occur to South Americans), whereas the Ygyde term for 'snow' has been lost, and 'rain' has come to mean La Niña and the opposite of drought and a compound now means 'rain'.