Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 25, 2003, 22:06 |
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en mem0 2003:04:24 06:16:06 PM/g0g0, dawier@HOTMAIL.COM graeffii:
>Polysynthetic languages like Inuktitut/Eskimo have large vocabularies
>derived from a relatively low number of roots, from what I've read.
Seems g0miileg0, though predominantly isolating/analytical, is also prone
to a fairly low number of roots (i.e. _g0_ can only be understood within
context).
Seems that I creating a more naturalistic conlang without really trying
to... and it helps that I have learned "hella lot more" linguistics - largely
through this list, private email with various list members and - of course -
tons-a'-books-&-_reputable_-websites.
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Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger
Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...
"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_
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