Re: Rosetta Stone idea

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> If a couple of people wanted to get together and to the Rosetta Stone
> activity, I'd be willing to participate in that, too.  I even have a
> suitable passage full of proper names to use as the starting place.
>
> This got me thinking of another project: Construct The Proto-Lang.  I have
> a cluster of three languages all descended from a common source, and I've
> always wondered if the proto-language I have designed is actually
> reconstructible from the daughter languages.  So if anyone else has a
> similar cluster of related languages, I'd love to do a swap and each see
> if we could analyze each other's languages.  They wouldn't need to be
> fully developed (mine aren't), as I think we'd probably just do word-lists
> and maybe some morphology and see what the other person comes up with.
>
> Any takers?
>
I used to have a cluster of langs like that but alas the notes are long
lost...I remember though, that it was Uralic in China.

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