Re: dying NATLANGS as CONLANGS

Philip,
Yes, very much like Cornish, though we are in the happy position to have
a comparatively large amount of Cornish. Revived Cornish has become more
of an "Ausbausprache" than a reconstruction and it is quite possible to express
a lot by directly attested Cornish. Note that this goes for written Cornish.
Spoken Cornish is a little trickier because traditionally it died out before
any recording apparatus was invented. So as far as the written word goes
Cornish is a full fledged natlang, but spoken Cornish is a "resonlang".

I've worked and dabbled with reconstructing Norn and Vegliot. Both languages
leave a substantially smaller, more restricted corpus and require a great
deal more invention.

Yehes da re'gas bo,
Dan



-----Original Message-----
From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf
Of Philip Newton
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:03 PM
To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
Subject: Re: Dying NATLANGS as CONLANGS?

On 4/11/06, Michael Adams <michael.adams1@...> wrote:
>
> Anyone working on old former or dying NATLANGs, but making them into a
> CONLANG
Like Cornish?

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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