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Re: What is an IE language (was: Re: Workshops Review from Yitzik the

From:Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>
Date:Friday, December 20, 2002, 3:25
--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:

> > And if your conlang's most features are found > > among the list I gave, you can > > safely say that it's an IE or IE-based > > conlang. > > I don't think that any set of grammatical > features can make a language IE > without a vocabulary derivable from PIE.
Unless that language later lost all or a large portion of its native vocabulary, say for political reasons. We did a game on sci.lang (or was it here?) a while ago, using English grammar and Latin words. It was totally unrecognisable to anyone who doesn't know Latin; but if you were familliar with Latin lexicon, it read most easily. I wouldn't say this language ceased to be English in any substantive way. Padraic. ===== Aci ce Kernow le ouygaint mil; et savuriont y pherque! .