Re: Fakelangs

Roger Mills:
> Christian Thalmann wrote:
>
> > Reading about conlangs that pretend to be part of Earth's history
> > rather than a con-Earth's, like Dirk's Tepa/Miapimoquitch or Joerg's
> > Albic, has always intrigued me.  I'm tempted to make one of those
> > langs myself, maybe even complete with a web page from an imaginary
> > language institute presenting some gathered data "reconstructed"
> > from old engravings and written accounts dating back a few centuries
> > when actual speakers of the language were still known to exist.
>
> Yes, that sort of thing is fun. Dirk's language is a good example;
> likewise Matt Pearson's Tokana.  Jan van Steenbergen's Hattic (or is it
> Vozgian [or both?]), IIRC, has a very nice and very authentic-sounding
> con-history; and I believe he has had inquiries from Polish speakers as
> to just what sort of dialect his Wenedyk is!!
AFAIK Tokana isn't a fakelang. But I can recommend Kinya

http://art.supereva.it/mgavioli.dadacasa/Kinya/default.htm?p

--And.