Re: Reconstructing Chovur

----- Original Message -----
From: "JS Bangs" <jaspax@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: Reconstructing Chovur


> Joseph:
>
> This looks like an interesting start, but I would dare to make a full
> reconstruction based on only 24 forms. When I did the previous ring, we
> used 100 cognates, and that was barely sufficient to catch everything
> (especially if the protolanguage has a large inventory). Anyway, as I said
> I'll do the reconstruction, but not until break, and I'd like more words
> than this. If no one else is jumping on (and I'm not sure where Roger fits
> into this), then we should probably keep future correspondence limited to
> private e-mail.
>
> --Jesse
I'd imagine no one would want to do a reconstruction with just those.  What
I'm hoping to do is whet someone's appetite.  So, with that in mind... would
anyone like to join in our proto-language reconstruction?