En réponse à bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:
>
> surely someone must have come up with theories of
> earlier conlangs, even if there's no evidence
>
Of course! Everybody knows that the very first language, the language of Adam
and Eve, was a conlang created by God himself ;))) .
> i can just see someone ( real or fictional ) making a
> whole academic career of trying to prove that some
> isolate, say euskara, is actually the result of a
> conlang/auxlang/lignua ignota of some social, racial
> or religious group which subsequently gained currency
> . . . ? !
>
I don't know why but Sumerian popped up in my mind when you mentioned that...
Is it possible that someone spent his/her career trying to prove that Sumerian
was actually an artificial language?
Christophe.
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