Re: Ah-ha! New computer, YANC and fluency

Carlos Thompson wrote:
>
> BP Jonsson wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ever got in their head to become fluent in a dead
> > language?  (Latin and Sanskrit of course don't count!  Neither do already
> > resurrected languages like Hebrew.)
>
> Before I discovered my self as a conlanger had thought, and even commented
> out, on reviving and speaking Chibcha (Muisca), but I haven't found
> (actually I haven't sought) any material, nor I know if someone has.  I'm
> pretty sure there must be some grammar on that language.
>
> -- Carlos Th

There is indeed a Chibcha grammar although I haven't seen it in
years.  I think its title was just Muisca and I believe it was
one of the Bureau of American Ethnography titles.  It was terrible
though, since it forced Muisca into a Latinate model.
I believe that the SIL has published several materials dealing with
Muisca proper as well as the rest of the family.  There site is
at www.sil.org
--
Brad Coon
bcoon@imt.net

Somedays when you wake up, its just not worth chewing through
the leather straps.