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Re: Indika

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, June 9, 2003, 21:02
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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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