Re: Scandinavian conlang
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 5, 2003, 18:16 |
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On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 11:36 PM, Daniel Ryan Prohaska wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> you wrote:
>
> <I'm interested in pseudo-Scandinavian orthographies for my nascent
> Ustekkli <project. It wants to have a more or less Germanic
> phonological
> cast <(Norwegian and Frisian with some Middle English thrown in) with a
> Southern <Uto-Aztecan morpho-syntax.
>
> <Any grammatical information you'd care to share?
>
> Frisian and Middle English phonology, Scandinavian orthography - yes;
> Uto-Aztecan morpho-syntax - a definite NO.
Are you talking about your project? I wouldn't expect there to be any
Uto-Aztecan influence in your project; I was talking about mine. It's
not a Germano-clone -- I'm just using some goodies from Germanic
phonology which I find attractive. The Uto-Aztecan stuff comes from my
professional life; I'm a linguist, and I work on the languages of the
North American Great Basin, which are Uto-Aztecan. For Ustekkli, I'm
looking at Southern Uto-Aztecan for inspiration, although the features
I'm interested in are also found (albeit in attenuated form) in the
languages of the Great Basin.
Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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