| From: | Eldin Raigmore <eldin_raigmore@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 22:46 |
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:05:07 +0100, Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:>Reilly Schlaier wrote at 2006-04-12 13:00:58 (-0400) >>a good list of sino-tibetan roots? >>or some such >>i am thinking of doing a lang based on tibetan roots but with germanic >>sound changes >I don't know if it exactly meets your requirements, but Matisoff's >_Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman_, available online here: >http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/ucpl/vol_135/ would probably be >useful in such a project.I am thinking of using Polynesian, and certain Afro-Asiatic subfamilies (including but not limited to Semitic), as "inspiration" for the vocabulary/lexicon of a conlang of mine. What would you, or anyone else on list, recommend? Here's what I've found out so far: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/CUS/AAindex.html looks like it could help with the Afro-Asiatic parts; but is it complete? and is there a better one? or just a "complementary" one? I am not sure I have been able to find anything similar for the Polynesian languages. Is http://rspas.anu.edu.au/linguistics/projects/oceanic/ good for this, or is it too massive or too general or too not-yet-complete? What about http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/Austronesian_and_Australi an/Oceanic_Languages/ or http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Languages/Austronesian_and_Australi an/Malayo,045Polynesian_Languages/ ? -- Thanks. eldin