Re: non-English WEB sites (was Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

>Hmmm. Could you actually do such a thing? That'd be a real
I could if I had something pertinant to say about Tsalagi (the language) or
Anitaslagi (the people) which wasn't already reflected on the sites
maintained by The Cherokee Nation.

>accomplishment! I'm hoping after my fieldwork this summer with
>Chemehuevi (Numic/Uto-Aztecan) that we'll have at least the rudiments of a
>web site *in* Chemehuevi. We're almost decided on the
Cool. I'd like to see that when it's up.

>writing system (though there are a few nagging questions still); next will
>be training the 12 remaining speakers to use it and start generating
>materials in Chemehuevi.
I'm sure it will be a bit better than the Tsalagi system, wherein Sequoyah
neglected to note that there were/are glottal stops, nazalizations and
released nasals in the language. Still, it was an amazing feat - creating,
from scratch and with little traning, an alphabet for a language.

12 speakers? Yikes.

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