Re: Reconstructing a Language

Perhaps a good start would be with the Chovur lanugages, as they are
reasonably close to their ancestral origin, without too many sound changes
in between.  I'll put up a list of some words and see who's interested.

Joe Fatula


----- Original Message -----
From: "JS Bangs" <jaspax@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Reconstructing a Language


> Joseph Fatula sikyal:
>
> > I don't know if anyone's interested in giving themselves more homework,
> > but... if anyone wants to try reconstructing a proto-language, I've got
all
> > three descendants of Chovur that went off in different directions that
you
> > could play around with.  Most of you probably wouldn't be interested,
but
> > there's got to be some masochist who actually likes that sort of thing.
>
> I've been lurking, but I'm potentially interested in doing a
> language-reconstruction swap. I held a pretty successful reconstruction
> ring about two years ago, and I'd be interested in doing one again, if
> others are interested.
>
> If it's just us two, we could trade language sets anyway. It'll have to
> wait until after I get off from school though, since I'll be far too busy
> until then. What do you think?
>
> Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
> http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/
>
> Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?"
>
> And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground
> of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our
> interpersonal relationship."
>
> And Jesus said, "What?"