Re: minimal language
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 2, 2007, 14:19 |
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On 3/1/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...> wrote:
> A recent topic on this list (or was it the archive?) was minimal languages,
> i.e., languages with only 20 or so words. This many words could be written
> simply as the 26 unadorned letters of the alphabet. Then texts would be streams
> of letters, possibly separated by spaces used as punctuation.
It wasn't so recent -- it was June 1999:
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9906c&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=21546
Several of us came up with languages of 20 or so words, including
Boudewijn Rempt,
Sally Caves, Paul Bennett and me.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm