Re: [various] CONLANG Digest - 30 Aug 2000

Hi!

Muke Tever wrote:

> [...]
>
> HADWAN [HDW] 1,000 in Spain, 1,500 in all countries.  Islands
> in Alborán Sea.  Indo-European, Mykaic, Western.  Several
> dialects, intelligibility probably sufficient to understand
> complex and abstract discourse.  90% non-human speakers.
What else are they?  And if they aren't human, why is their language
Indo-European?

>       40%
> (mostly males) bilingual in Spanish, younger speakers prefer
> English.  Recent orthography reform (1976); 35% literacy in
> old native script, 85% in new Roman-style script.  Typology:
> SVO, head-initial, ergative.  Christian.  Bible respelled
> 1977.
>
> Standard disclaimer: 98.8% of statistics are made up on the spot.  I'm
> really not that far along in the language yet (I'm about two thousand years
> behind!... glacially slow.) so anything this current is well and likely to
> change without notice.  (Although in an absolute sense, there really _can't_
> be too many Hadwan speakers.)
Why can't there be too many Hadwan speakers?  Does this have anything to
do with the fact that most of them are non-human?  Who, or *what* are
they?

Please, please clear us up!

Thanks in advance,

Joerg.