Re: Non-humanoid langs

Roger Mills wrote at 2005-04-26 12:35:12 (-0400)
 > Wesley Parish wrote:
 > > And then there is the unspeakable utterances of Cthulhu and crew
 > > in Lovecraft ... ia, ia, ia, ftagn!
 > >
 > ...with their Godless phonemes. :-))))) (Perhaps Barry G's "friend"
 > is a HPL fan-- BTW a collection of his stories has just been
 > published; it received a perplexed but ultimately favorable review
 > in the Sunday NYTimes)

While these presumably are inhuman languages, in Lovecraft they're
generally uttered by cultists, sorcerors, people recalling nightmarish
visions: i.e., humans.  So whatever is transmitted to us*, at any
rate, is composed of speakable human morphemes.

*  By transcribers who seem to come up with rather involved
   orthographies based on very small samples of speech, e.g.
   "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn".