Greetings,
I invented the Taazhpuur language as a teenager in the years 1979-1981 for a planned micronation as a social experiment set on islands in the Gulf off the west coast of Florida.
After the very real pirate raid and subsequent Diaspora, I envisioned a novel to express my philosophy, in which characters—all hunter/gatherers would speak Taazhpuur. It turned out however, that I was more interested in the joys of the language creation process than the writing of the novel, which never came to fruition. Only a few fragmentary poems survive from the attempted novel. The Taazhpuur language and the micronation still exists.
Ultimately, Taazhpuur existed only as a mass of handwritten papers in a box. By the mid 1980’s I occasionally pulled them out and attempted to write rare journal entries in Taazhpuur, or more properly, pidgin Taazhpuur, (these are the Miscellanea) but the project was eventually relegated to storage and forgotten.
Recently, I reread my Taazhpuur work. Few would be able to read my faded scribbles. Aware by now that there are people interested in making and studying constructed languages, and in an effort to salvage what had been hundreds of hours of work, I typed and reformatted them as you see here. I added some new vocabulary in the process, in accordance with my younger self’s expressed plan. Genesis, Imagine, and Your Very Lips Manifesto were translated by me recently. The Taazhpuur precedes the English transliteration. The Your Very Lips Manifesto is my own original poem. In the tradition of of certain cheesy 1950’s horror films, I created a cover for my unnamed novel (now titled Savage Hordes of Weeki-Wachee) as a cover for this grammar and lexicon. For those of you who enjoy constructed languages, here you are.
Enjoy.
I achieved a B.A. in Anthropology from USF in 1983. I make no claims to linguistic skills of any sort.
All errors are mine
Gregory Scaff
Embassy of The Commonwealth of Taazhpuuria
SuccubusArts.com
I invented the Taazhpuur language as a teenager in the years 1979-1981 for a planned micronation as a social experiment set on islands in the Gulf off the west coast of Florida.
After the very real pirate raid and subsequent Diaspora, I envisioned a novel to express my philosophy, in which characters—all hunter/gatherers would speak Taazhpuur. It turned out however, that I was more interested in the joys of the language creation process than the writing of the novel, which never came to fruition. Only a few fragmentary poems survive from the attempted novel. The Taazhpuur language and the micronation still exists.
Ultimately, Taazhpuur existed only as a mass of handwritten papers in a box. By the mid 1980’s I occasionally pulled them out and attempted to write rare journal entries in Taazhpuur, or more properly, pidgin Taazhpuur, (these are the Miscellanea) but the project was eventually relegated to storage and forgotten.
Recently, I reread my Taazhpuur work. Few would be able to read my faded scribbles. Aware by now that there are people interested in making and studying constructed languages, and in an effort to salvage what had been hundreds of hours of work, I typed and reformatted them as you see here. I added some new vocabulary in the process, in accordance with my younger self’s expressed plan. Genesis, Imagine, and Your Very Lips Manifesto were translated by me recently. The Taazhpuur precedes the English transliteration. The Your Very Lips Manifesto is my own original poem. In the tradition of of certain cheesy 1950’s horror films, I created a cover for my unnamed novel (now titled Savage Hordes of Weeki-Wachee) as a cover for this grammar and lexicon. For those of you who enjoy constructed languages, here you are.
Enjoy.
I achieved a B.A. in Anthropology from USF in 1983. I make no claims to linguistic skills of any sort.
All errors are mine
Gregory Scaff
Embassy of The Commonwealth of Taazhpuuria
SuccubusArts.com