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Re: Historical descent of related conlangs

From:Mark P. Line <mark@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 4, 2004, 20:48
Ben Poplawski said:
> > One of my collecting-dust projects that I have recently unearthed involves > a story with a considerable history to it. It's going to involve several > different conlangs with historical change and forming of dialects factored > in. > > <snipped description of Ben's project>
You're doing with artlangs in a conworld what I'm doing with engelangs without an associated conworld (in the usual sense). My intention is to let some software wear down a few rough edges in Classical Yiklamu (perhaps the /yi/'s and /wu/'s and some of the more unpleasant clusters) to produce a smallish and relatively homogeneous Vulgar Yiklamu speech community. From there I want to model language diffusion and change over a suitably interesting (but fictional) topography until I obtain languages that are not co-intelligible with VY nor with each other. I'm sure I won't be able to prevent myself from trying this several different times with various parameters and topographies, so I'm sure I'll wind up with Yiklamu language families in several parallel universes. -- Mark