Re: Collaboration

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:01:23 +1200, andrew <hobbit@...>
wrote:

>A chance to create new languages in a new world?
Yes. And let others help them grow.

Personally, I have a few half-abandoned projects which I think I'll
never finish. I don't have any especial property feelings for them.
But each of them was designed to explore some idea which seemed
interesting to me, and may seem interesting to other people.

And on other people's sites I saw quite a few projects which looked as
if they were in a similar condition. It would be lots of fun if I could
play with some of them!

>That sounds like fun.
>Creating a language that is a sythesis of two older languages is an idea
>that I've wondered about doing.
Or think of 'simply' evolving languages from other languages.

For example, if you like pacific-sounding tongues, you may wish to develop
them from most dissimilar languages, including those having 200+
consonants, just to see if that's possible.

Or, if you like pidgins and creoles, why not model their emergence in most
diverse contact situations over millennia?

Etc., etc., etc.

>It's been a while since I tried to
>create a completely original language.
Yes, in a way it's funnier to construct a language having an internal
history of its own; but then, it's easier to take another language as the
starting point, so that the history will have no limit back in the past.

So, an APPEAL for contributing candidate protolangs!

(Yes, I do think of at least one of my own)

Any ideas about the criteria?


Basilius