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Re: Indika

From:Anthony M. Miles <theophilus88@...>
Date:Monday, June 9, 2003, 21:19
The Esperantesque grammar of Indika gives it the flavor of a 'euroclone'; so
does the use of 'Western' roots.

>________________________________________________________________________ >________________________________________________________________________ > >Message: 23 > Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:25:21 +0530 > From: Nikhil Sinha <nsinha_in@...> >Subject: Re: Indika > >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 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > >________________________________________________________________________
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