Re: Introduction to FourHorse
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 20, 2001, 3:38 |
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:07:17 -0400, Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
wrote:
>On nonhuman tongues in general:
>These seem to be rare birds in the conlang world. How many are there flying
>around?
>At one point I had a conlang for very long-lived beings who had a longevity
>gender system; humans fell under 'transient', the same category as mayflies
>and sea turtles. I lost my otes on it, though.
I've taken the general approach of saying that language in my con-universe
originated with elves, including human language. Some species can't
pronounce all of the sounds easily (Mizarian languages tend to lack nasals
and rounded vowels), and others include sounds not generally found in human
languages (voiced and voiceless Neyasai whistles), but all humanoids can
generally produce the same sounds, and they have similar mental abilities.
The idea of a *really* alien language would be interesting, but I've never
had enough interest to actually develop something like that in detail.
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