Re: Ancient conlang

Isaac Penzev wrote:
> On the other hand, there are societies that are open for
> incorporating foreing element by assimilating them, without losing own identity.
> Examples: Japanese, Tagalog, Swahili.
Yet, even Japanese early on avoided borrowings, naming the months of the
Gregorian calendar "1st month", "2nd month", etc., and creating
compounds like "lightning-talk" for "telephone".  This has, of course,
changed in more recent times, to the extent that even formerly illegal
syllables are now permitted, such as [ti], [tsa], [Pa], etc., and even a
new phoneme /v/ (although many speakers still use [b])

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