Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Rosetta Stone idea

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Saturday, June 2, 2001, 11:35
>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?
Well, I think Tairezazh and Steianzh would work. At least if I also provided some dialectal forms to push up the number of direct cognates. Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Reply

jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>Proto-Language Reconstruction Ring