Re: Pigdin langs?

From: "Elliott Belser" <renyard@...>

| Hmmn... something minor, but still.  I'm doing a report on Black
| (that is, African-American) English and how it relates to African
| languages and Portugese.  It occurred to me that learning about
| pidgins would help me craft some for the Ng'anda'u trying to learn
| English...  so that Kiras' speech in one of my stories:

You probably read my posts on Lanka, my *attempt* at devising a human language
for a pre-human primate species. The idea is to make the language simple as
possible, and my idea for phonology and grammar is "one dimensional". There's no
phonemic voiceless-voiced distinction (just voicing of the normally voiceless
stops and sibilant in between vowels), for example; neither are there
subordinate or relative clauses. Everything is meant to be "linear" in thought
process. And I also mentioned the partial use of sign language in tandem with
spoken word.

Though I'm still not solidly decided on this, I'm using the Basic English
wordlist, with occasional French words if they're easier to pronounce (a "Basic
French" for what it's worth).

~Danny~