Re: Semitic languages & Cultures

In a message dated 05/18/2002 02.52.17 PM, dawier@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

>I mix fantasy and sci-fi, but my future world is more the latter, with
>cyberpunk and "new dark age" ideas thrown in.
> [ . . . ] My only true conlang I'm working on is Tech, since the other
hominid race, a >resurrection of early humans (Neanderthals, basically),
popularly (and pejoratively) >known as Trolls, speak a highly altered form of
Latin, which I might change to >something like Lojban in the future. That's
more of a controlled language rather than
>a conlang. (Contlang?)
    CyberLang!!!!

>There may be a third humanoid race -- an amphibious mix of human, fish
>and reptile, known tentatively as the Limns. If they get their own conlang,
>it'll probably be something based loosely on Sino-Tibetan (or maybe
>Sino-Caucasian): no huge consonant phonology like Tech, but instead a
>"musical language", where the tones are based around a pentachordal scale
>(do re mi fa sol), and the mode of the scale communicates an emotional
>meaning or attitude that isn't expressed by words alone.
    Hey now! That sounds _almost_ like my other, yet-to-be-sketched
out/developed ConLang, a yet-unnamed conlang of a race of space-faring
reptilian-like aliens.
    A few differences tho': extensive use of very l---o---w creaky voice in
speaking, ... and they are capable of multiphonics and overtones (especially
when throat-singing singing or chanting)!!!
    ::wicked grin:: And they also use differing growling infrasonic tones to
impart "subtextual" information/communication (imagine being able to speak a
common language overtly and a clan-dialect/cipher below that).
    Eek! I will have to eventually figure out a way to write this up somehow
in ASCII...  0_o??

Hanuman Zhang
    ~
"When you lose a language,
it's like dropping a bomb on a museum." ~ Kenneth Hale
-----------~§~-----------
en legoset _ creolego _ =
    ¡ gwerra sumtotall-morda legotaxo!
    ¡ banc poli en-noxa legoplex !  creo legoplex !

trans-litteral-slice-ation into English:

in Creo-Lego word-set  <vocabulary>:
    War word-system sum-total(all)-death !
        <combat/fight linguistic extinction!>
    Save multiple in-danger language{s}!  Create language[s]!