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Re: sounds I can't find!!!

From:Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>
Date:Monday, August 16, 2004, 2:11
Scotto wrote: "Trebor, would this be the representation from
http://cassowary.free.fr/Linguistics/cxschart.png "

Possibly. Although I can't see and graphics are incompatible with my speech
program, so I wouldn't be much help here :P

To conserve postings:

Scotto also wrote: "You are correct that sevogu is derived from svogunas.

I'd like to see something akin to Jan's Grand Master Plans for deriving
Wenedyk and the like (<http://geocities.com/wenedyk/language/gmp.html>) then
:)))

"As Vystoulor is in the former East Prussia, now currently the Kaliningrad
Oblast, there will be many loan words from Lithuanian and Polish.

I see. I haven't seen any other conlangs with roots from Lithuanian in them
(explicitly stated)... Anyone? It's an interesting language, being the most
archaic of all IE languages (according to
<http://www.lituanus.org/1984_1/84_1_04.htm>).

"There are a thousand general roots which I have generated by computer which
correspond to Roget's thesaurus, but so many words are not represented
there. I also have a heavy smattering from Indo-European.

I recommend the Universal Language Dictionary:
<http://www.umsl.edu/~cph9fa/chelume/vocab/archive/index.html> (under the
heading "The Universal Language Dictionary - 1600 words").

"I hope no one minds me borrowing words from Lithuanian. I'll be sure to
return them when I'm Finnished."

Well, Kosi's got roots from Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Indonesian, and a
few from Arabic, Romance, Germanic, Silindion (nice stuff, Elliot! :D), and
Verdurian... Quite a pain if I ever want to write an etymological
dictionary. (And anyway, Kosi isn't even spoken on Terra, so returning the
words would be pretty expensive ;)))) )

Cheers,

Trebor

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