Overview

OGTRTA is a meta-conlang that I started work on in 2023. It has no concrete phonology, lexicon, or morphology: it is almost entirely concerned with the syntax and lexical semantics of the language. Its purpose is to provide a skeletal structure for any future conlangs I create, ensuring that they start out internally consistent and remain so as they grow.

OGTRTA may seem abstract, almost like a programming language for languages. That isn't entirely accidental. OGTRTA co-evolved with my program Audition, which is essentially a compiler for conlang grammars. OGTRTA provides structure, but doesn't restrict you. If you master OGTRTA, you will find the grammars of thousands of languages almost ready-made within you, needing only to be clothed in sound and meaning to be made whole.

Parts of speech

OGTRTA is built around five parts of speech:

• nouns
• verbs
• determiners
• conjunctions
• particles

Word order and reversibility

OGTRTA is a reversible syntax, meaning that if you reverse the right-hand-side of all the production rules, you still get a coherent language. This allows OGTRTA languages to have four different word orders in main clauses:

• SOV
• OVS
• VSO
• SVO

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