Re: "Riverworld" conlang - 3 words extant

Wesley Parish wrote:

>In "Gods of Riverworld", Philip Jose Farmer has one character, Loga, shout
out "I tsab u!", which is translated as "Who are you?"  This is identified
as the language of the "Ethicals" the aliens who have set up the riverworld
system.
>
>I haven't read any of the other Riverworld books, so I don't know if
there's any other vocab.
>
>Does anyone have solid information on the Ethicals conlang?
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I've read all five of the Riverworld novels and I don't recall any other
example of the Ethical's language other than the one you cited. The Ethicals
barely appear in any of the first four books. I could be
wrong though, given that it's been at least ten or fifteen years ago.  On
the other hand, I recall there being several instances of Esperanto
throughout the series, which functions as the lingua franca along the River
itself.

(Also:  I'm curious why you would start out reading the fifth book of the
series instead of the first?)

--John Quijada

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