--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Danny Wier <dawiertx@S...> wrote:
> (My theory is that
> the jinn, which according to Islamic teaching, were created from
fire, while
> humans came from earth, are beings of energy rather than matter, but
they
> can materalize if they feel the need. Wasn't there a race in the classic
> Star Trek series like that?)
That would remove a lot of the verisimilitude of the current
Techs, ne?
> I have something in a book that claims that a number of words in
> Indo-European are of Northwest Caucasian origin, though the Caucasus
ain't
> the Alps. Kabardian and Abkhaz are definitely 'rough and
ancient-looking';
> you could use those for a model.
Thanks, I'll give them a look. I'd like to have a certain
amount of artistic license though. For example, I'd like to
give Hairo a vaguely Germanic touch, as if the Germanic langs
had grown from a Hairo influence to PIE. Also, I much prefer
inflection over agglutination.
-- Christian Thalmann