Re: Presentation on Language Creation

Christophe Grandsire writes:
 >
 > > 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?
 >
 Now, I've never seen anything specifically claiming that Sumerian was
 a conlang, but this
http://www.sumerian.org/prot-sum.htm

 does seem to me to imply that the author thinks both Proto-Sumerian
 and PIE were created by people who were previously without language.
 You have to scroll down a bit to get to the strange parts.  I may be
 misinterpreting this, of course.

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