Re: Rhyming Conlangs

Quoting Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:

> The astounding thing is that the Somali verse tradition is (or was
> until very recently) purely oral, as the vast majority of the
> population was illiterate in any language and nearly everyone was
> illiterate in Somali.
Oh, that shouldn't be THAT surprising.  Both the Iliad and
the Odyssey were entirely orally transmitted for centuries
before they were finally written down and standardized sometime
in the 7th century.  And they were only some 12,000 lines long,
with about 10% of it repetition;  there are much, much longer
oral poems.

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