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Re: Really Intersistemal (was: INTERSYSTEMAL CONLANG)

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 2, 2002, 13:21
 --- Wesley Parish wrote:

> Simple solution - base the very next IAL on Sumerian with heavy Chinese > (tonal), Basque, Tamil and Ancient Egyptian conjugation and declination > influences. But skew the pronunciation towards Shona, for very obvious > reasons - no one else has done so yet, so it's free, and add in a large > number of (Anatolian) Hattic, Urartian and Elamitic roots.
Then I will probably throw in some of my own Hattic as well! :)
> Then don't forget to derive the physiological and anatomical vocab from > Mishnaic Hebrew and Islamic Arabic theological terms, simplifying what is > complicated, and complicating what is simple ...
Seriously, if (if, if) I had been an auxlanger, I would not think it a bad idea to create an IAL based on reconstructed proto-languages. Maybe I'll give it a try once... could be fun! Oops, have I crossed the line already? Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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