Allamej: A Place for Everyone
Allamej is a hybrid language constructed by Rodrigo Solano as a representation of human diversity coexistence through the conciousness of hybridization.
Specialists
say humans are symbolic beings. They are born to their languages and become
subordinated to whatever they learn through them. They become attached
to their language content as part of their inner beings, EGO, and emotionally alienated
from reality which includes: Humans are diversified and are often exposed to their cultural differences. Language then is this very symbolic place where humans are segregated. Allamej is a symbolic place aiming to instigate individuals to reflect about their attitudes in relation to culture diversity.
A Mix of
languages
We use language to think, produce and depict meanings. Allamej (also Allamese or Alamês) is a hybrid language constructed by Solano based on multiple spoken languages of the world, mostly based on language families like: Bantu, Germanic, Greek, Indic, Japanese, Latin, Malay, Persian, Quechua, Semitic, Sino-Tibetan, Slavonic, Thai, Turkic, Tupian, Yoruba and other contributions. This mix intends to represent coexistence of people diversity by producing words based on different cultures and adding them to format a language. For these words to be combatible one with another, meanings have to be reflected sometimes just as our cohexistence as humans. "Truth", "God" and "Reality" are examples of challenging words when we live segregated in different languages, different cultures. Would it be possible to review concepts in order to accept the reallity of people diversity?
A Symbolic Intercultural place
The inspiration for Allamej was at first Esperanto. But both the European base concentration of Esperanto origins and language creation purposes were differed since the beginning. As a suburban Brazilian mestiço, Solano created Allamej in a way that reflected what he could notice in himself and in the local hybrid culture, commonly found in Latin America but both ethnically and culturally embodies far more than just Latin-Based languages, but a mix of several peoples from different regions. Allamej was not a language to be spoken at first then, but to produce culture questioning.
Recognizing
the world as hybrid
From this perspective, Allamej comes up with the notion that hybridization is not only a Latin American feature, but a Historical human process happening globally with the interaction of different people for different purposes, and among them trading goods and acquiring knowledge. History tells us that Empires had relations with each other and included within them a great number of different ethnic grups and cultures. The exchange of goods and knoledge may serve as example of intercultuaral productions. Beer was probably first developed in the Middle East and now is famous in many countries just as potato is originally fom the Americas and is now part of many European traditional cuisines. Phoenician writing system gave rise to Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin and many other alphabets representing a turning point in human development. Actually it is very hard for one to look at anything around that had abslotly no influence from other cultures. Therefore, interculturality means progress. That way, Allamej productions aim to respect contributions of every people, tribe or civilization to humanity, bringing them together a symbolism which is in the opposite side of supremacist or segregation primitive instincts.
Structure
Allamej is
built up by importing words from different languages and adapting their shape and written form to the Allamej structure, just like adding blocks to build a diversified village. In the image bellow you may have an idea how Allamej meanings are built.
If you are
not a language expert, the illustration just shows that words are imported from languages
spoken in different cultures and modified in a way to be accommodated into Allamej
structure which is quite regular: each syllable has a predictable format that points
to a meaning that adding up to others syllables make more and more words. See the
examples:
- 1. Tup
comes from Tupi, the classical indigenous Brazilian language – “Tupã” used to
mean a God. In Allamej it is adapted to “tup” and means “nature”.
- 2. Ved
comes from Sanskrit word वेद, “veda” , the classical language of Northern India in which most of the ancient philosophical texts were written, including cosmology and subjects close to
well-being and psychology.
- 3. The
two words together form “tupved” which means “science”.
And that’s
the way words are constructed and make new logical senses. That way of building
meaning is common in many languages such as: Chinese, German, Tupi and Turkish. But
in Allamej words are inspired in different languages, cultures and meanings.
More on the Allamej language structure.
Script
Allamej has its own alphabet which also has hybrid origins and may be represented in ways reminding cursive scripts like Arabic, old Latin or Cyrillic and Mongolian for example. Coincidentally hybridized people are highly found both in Latin America and in the Muslim world. It also happens in other cultures, sometimes more prominently, sometimes less. As examples we may see the roots used to build the word “diversity” above first in standard Allamej alphabets and then in stylized ways to remind their origins.
Allaminmünyuj in Standard Allamej Alphabet:
Video About Allamej Alphabet
Colors
Inspired by
some of the elements that instigated interactions between different peoples,
sometimes provoking bad consequences, but many times mixing peoples and
cultures Allamej is usually portrayed along with images in seven different
colors representing those items. The color diversity standing alongside is also inspired in the so called "Fitas do Nosso Senhor do Bonfin" a symble of Bahia, where the Portuguese are believed to have first arrived in Brazil. They are seven, an important number in several
cultures.
❶ Silver White: Representing the wealth that
motivated international trade.
❷ Sea Green-Blue : Reminding us
of the seas which have become commercial routes
❸ Nature Green: Reminding us of the original natural
resources in every region of the planet and sustainability.
❹ Gold and Sand Yellow : Recognizing deserts that linked the West to the East on the silk road
and Africa to the Mediterranean and to the Middle East many times .
❺ Spicy Orange: Alluding to the masala, which is a mix of spices, that
motivated the logistical and intercultural development of nations.
❻ Brazilian Wood and
Royal Red: Giving
evidence to India cinnamon and brazilwood that were part of long journeys that
integrated peoples.
❼ Skin Black: The last color and the highest
number. Honor of the diverse non-white populations that have become part of
international culture.
Inspiration Trip for Allamej Colors
Productions
Whatever is produced in or throughout Allamej reflects interculturality, peace, union, and intends to instigate self-questioning by exploring our own beliefs and values. It may instigate the perception that almost everything that segregates humanity comes somehow out of language and its productions: frontiers, skin color connotation, prejudice, the name of God, the "we and them" mindset, when "them" are usually the others, strangers, barbarians or enemies ... At the same time Allamej conserves origins, respects diversity and is open to new concepts.
Examples of what is and can be produced in or throughout Allamej:
Some Texts:
Images: There is no deep technical specialty to produce Allamej Images. The the objective reflection throug language, colors and images hybridity. Click on the images for more information.
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Behind Knowledge | Bëkun Havedur |
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Hybrid Hug | Allaminü Bazüm |
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World's Corner | Esquina do Mundo | Lamirënyuj |
Some publications about Allamej on the internet:
Omniglot: Language Encyclopedia
Estadão: "Far Beyonf the Game of Thrones" (In Portuguese)
Terra: "Far Beyonf the Game of Thrones" (In Portuguese)
Arab-Brazil News Agency: Phrase Book Includes Allamej
Faro: Conlang Syllable Structure
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