Re: Montanian

Dear Joe,
One possible idea is not so much to make your inflected language "come from"
Montanian, but make both Montanian and your new language separate offshoots of
an earlier language. This language could be highly inflecting and, for reasons
you can then invent, Montanian dropped most of these inflections while the
other language didn't. A good example is Anglo-Saxon, which has gender,
concord, case and so on; these have largely disappeared in modern English but
not in (say) German or Icelandic.
Mike Poxon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: joe 
  To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU 
  Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:05 PM
  Subject: Montanian


 I'm planning (eventually) to extend my montanian language (once I've got a
relatively full vocab) into a whole group, one of the languages will be highly
inflected, any Ideas on how to turn Montanian into a highly inflected language
believably?
   

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