Re: The disappeared conlang (and: Character sets)

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, BP Jonsson wrote:

> At 21:23 2002-01-22 +0100, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> Can you reconstruct it from related languages or daughter languages?  I did
> that with Kidjeb (aka Proto-Sahlab) and am now ending up redoing (once
> again renamed) Sohlob from my new conception of Kidjeb.  The meta-relations
> are becoming something of a problem...
>
Yes -- that's what I will do, once I have finished the first draft. I
actually started doing some work on it, and then noticed that the story
was rapidly slipping out of mind. I did have a small lexicon (it's in
my Kura database), and I used that to construct a vague placeholder...

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