Re: Thagojian and Wenetaic (was: Order of letters)

 --- Paul Bennett wrote:

> 1) Conlangers with related names have done the
> research on suitable names for an Indo-European
> people.
Yes. In this case I must add that the Roman had the strange habit of applying
one name for a number of completely unrelated tribes in completely different
parts of the world. One of these were the Veneti/Venedi in the land between the
Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, originally a common name for the Slavs and later
for the West-Slavs, the ancestors of my Venedians.
Not to be confused with the Veneti of the Venice region or the Veneti of Gaul.

> Thag grew out of my three main projects,
> "Classic" Thagojian (which was a monstrous beasty
> with very many consonants and two vowels -- words
> formed from roots by various consonant
> mutations); Wenetaic, which was an attempt to put
> quasi-IE roots over and Elamite-like grammar,
> plus some wierd directional, diectic and
> case-marking infixes; Meynian, which was a kind
> of vanilla IE lang, though it was Split-S, had a
> massive pronoun set and ratyher too many vowels.
What does "vanilla IE lang" mean?

Anyway, since I have the weird habit of collecting the numerals in all possible
IE-based conlang, perhaps I could ask you to enrich my collection? I have been
looking for them in vain (yes, all of them: old Thagojian, new Thagojian, and
Wenetaic; this is the first time I hear about Meynian).

> > Thagojian is derived straigly from IE, right?
>
> It's a satem IE language, theoretically from the
> Lower Egypt / Holy Land / Babylon kind of area,
> probably a bit migratory. Most closely related to
> the Indo-Iranian branch, but not closely enough
> to be one of them.
< snip phonology >

> > [...] You don't accidentally happen to
> > have the grammar and lexicon online somewhere?
>
> Sadly, no. I'm enough of a procrastinator that
> little makes its way past the "scribbled notes"
> stage. I'll make an effort, though. I really
> will. I promise.
Well, I'm really looking forward to see some grammar!

Best,
Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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