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Re: dying NATLANGS as CONLANGS

From:Michael Adams <michael.adams1@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 23:57
Nazzha qo..(hard k, more to the back of the throat.

Mike

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Prohaska" <danielprohaska@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:46 AM
Subject: 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@...>