Re: Indika

yscreus ce Nikhil Sinha:

Greetings!

> What is the definition of an 'euroclone'?
A euroclone is a very specific kind of conlang.

First, it is an auxlang (thus putting it in the
same category as Ido, E-o, Volapuk, etr.)
Secondly, it closely mimics one or another of the
previously introduced european based constructed
auxlangs in grammar, vocabulary or structure. I
had a look at your sites to see how badly
infected your conlang was by E-o. ;)) The disease
is pervasise, but it _can_ be cured!!! It just
takes time and continued work!

As these are your first conlangs, it is not a
surprise that you'd model them so closely on
languages you know. My first large scale conlang
was based on Middle English, and looked about as
much like ME as yours looks like Esperanto. The
nominal -n, verbal -as, -us, -i, adverbial -e ,
etc. all give it away as closely related to E-o!

> I thought euroclone was a language
> which was based on European languages.
Not exactly. We don't really have a word for that
- I suppose Eurolang would do. [Compare with
Romlang, which is a Romance conlang, and all the
other conflations of some descriptor plus -lang.]

> Mine is based on Indo-Aryan
> languages, which, of course belongs to the
> Indo-European family of languages.
Hm. In the West, _I think_, Indo-Aryan and
Indo-European are synonymous, along with
Indo-Germanic.

Or do you mean Indo-Iranian? - which is the limb
to which Sanskrit and Avestan belong; and thus
Hindi/Urdu, the other Prakrits and Farsi.

> Nikhil.
Padraic.


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