Re: Conlang evolution

On Mon, 27 May 2002 16:52:10 -0400, Christopher B Wright
<faceloran@...> wrote:

>I am interested in finding out how quickly conlangs usually change.
>Tolkien's Qenya (1920's) was unintelligible with Quenya (1930's). Sturnan
>speakers (speaking Sturnan now) could understand the original Sturnan,
>though original Sturnan speakers would need a short course (two weeks
>would be enough) before they could understand modern Sturnan.
As it turns out, I was just looking at an OLD Tirelat document (dated
8/23/99), with the names of the years in the Tirelat calendar. Here's the
comparison:

English    Old Tirelat  New Tirelat  Jarda
wren       tir          trhil        trril
otter      syorra       shyrra       sjoerra
spider     ztelka       stelhka      stelka
shrew      furu         fuuru        furu
owl        numu         nuumu        numou
shark      xrrakza      hraksa       khraksa
centipede  zrotta       zruta        zrouta
weasel     sira         shiira       (sjira)
raven      var          waar         var
dolphin    kej          kezh         kezj
wasp       dor          dlhor        dhlor
badger     lezta        lesta        lesta

This is more an example of how Tirelat spelling has changed over the last
couple of years, since these are mostly words borrowed from Jarda, and
every once in a while revised to be closer to the original Jarda words.
(The exception is "tir", replaced by the Jarda-derived "trhil".)

But I've actually saved quite a few old versions of Tirelat, and if I ever
have the time, it'd be interesting to see how things have changed. Tirelat
has gone through quite a few changes, and having everything in one big Word
file only makes it easier to make massive changes.

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