Re: Really Intersistemal (was: INTERSYSTEMAL CONLANG)

 --- 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

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