Re: The disappeared conlang (and: Character sets)

Shalom, Boudewijn! Haalwesdhu, mi'n fre'nd!

----- Original Message -----
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:23 PM
Subject: The disappeared conlang (and: Character sets)


> (skip)
>
> Ob conlang: I've now arrived in my novel at a point where I needed a
> nice stretch of classical Charyan. I started rummaging in my files
> (which stretch back to the halcyon days of my first PC-XT), and found
> nothing. I thought I had made a grammar for the language, once, and I
> do have a lot of words... Then I went back to my paper archives. Those
> occupy (together with Irina's) a whole wall in the guest room. No
> grammar either, only a short note that was obviously written when I
> was much enamoured with Classical Chinese, and which is completely
> opaque to me, now...
>
> So there I am -- Manxu is teaching Murxao classical Charyan, and I
> have to fill in the examples with XXX! This conlang appears to be
> no more -- it's a goner -- it's giving the glottal fricatives -- it
> won't go SOV if you put a thousand volts in it.
>
> And now I have a difficult choice -- continue writing a pace of 5000
> words a week, or take an undefined period of time to re-construct
> it.
It looks like I can help you, at least to some extent!
I've found some files on my hard disc, that seem like copies from some of
your pages about Charyan (I don't know if it's Classical one, or other).

They are:
altar_text.gif
charian_languages.htm
charyan_matraian.gif
gender.htm
number.htm
phonology.htm
pronouns.htm
schoonschrift.htm
script.gif

I hope I was not violating copyright when having put them onto my HD, was
I?
They were exclusively for private use. :-)
Nu?

With love in Him,
Yitzik
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