Re: Indika

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From: "Costentín Cornomorus" <elemtilas@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:53 PM
Subject: 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.
No,  Indo-Aryan is a synonym for Indo-Iranian, IIRC.

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