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Re: Reconstructing Chovur

From:Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Monday, December 2, 2002, 20:50
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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?