Re: Pigdin langs?

Danny Wier wrote:
>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).
Don't forget Basic Slovak!

(Somebody suggested a dumbed-down version of Slovak called that as an IAL,
but I don't know how seriously.)

                                                        Andreas

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