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

--- 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.


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