----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Horswood" <geoffhorswood@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: Introduction
> Greetings, fellow conlangers!
greetings.
as you spent time in Kazakhstan, would I say "merhaba" or "salaam" ?
> I've been lurking for a week or so now, so I thought it high time I
> introduced myself.
welcome!
> translate to and from American English :), and am fairly fluent in Kazakh.
> (execrable). I can also get by (for understanding, at least) the other
> Central Asian Turkic languages: Kyrgyz, Uighur, and to a much lesser
degree
> Turkmen and Uzbek. Whew!
if I might ask, could I rely on your expertise when I do a Turkic-based
conlang?
also, do you think the Seljuk peoples spoke a Turkic or an Arabic language?
> I'm relatively new to this conlanging business; I've only been doing it
for
> a couple of years.
I've been conlanging less.
(in both senses of the sentance).
> So far I'm developing my second conlang, which doesn't have a name yet
(for
> the moment it goes by the name of the nation that speak it- Xinkutlan).
> It's a VSO agglutinating (probably) language
yeah, I get confused about those things too.
> tribe in a parallel earth I'm developing, where iron-working is the height
> of experimental new technology.
isnt' that the real world? :)
> Well, that's the bare bones of who I am. It's been great finding this
list
> and realising I'm not as alone in my off-the-wall-ness as I once thought!
>
> Aman bolyngyzdar!
translation, please?