Re: Indika
| From: | Nikhil Sinha <nsinha_in@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 9, 2003, 16:58 |
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What is the definition of an 'euroclone'? I thought euroclone was a language
which was based on European languages. Mine is based on Indo-Aryan
languages, which, of course belongs to the Indo-European family of
languages.
Nikhil.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony M. Miles" <theophilus88@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Indika
> I'm Theophilus Habarakhe. I'm studying for a Classical Languages (Greek
and
> Latin) MA, but I'm also doing an independent course in Sanskrit. Indika is
> what we call a Euroclone - but that's what most Conlangers start with
(mine
> metamorphosed into something entirely different). I like the adjective
> 'sundara' . Do you have any more-than-one-sentence translations? Any
> interesting grammatical points? Which bits of Indika are particularly
> influenced by Hindi?
> "commune id vitium est, hic vivimus ambitiosa
> paupertate"
> "this is our common fault; here we live in ostentatious poverty"
> Juvenal, Satires 3.182-3
>
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