Re: Presentation on Language Creation
| From: | bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 11:33 |
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--- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote: > David
Peterson writes:
> >
> > 2.) Does anyone have any information on or any
> links to information on the
> > history of language creation--specifically,
> information on NON-Auxlangs from
> > way in the past? I found a bunch of information
> on Auxlangs, but very
> > little on non, aside from the Voynich manuscript.
> Is there anything out
> > there?
> >
> Well, do you have anything on the Lingua Ignota of
> Hildegard of
> Bingen? I've heard it called the earliest known
> conlang, although
> it's really only a partial relex.
>
surely someone must have come up with theories of
earlier conlangs, even if there's no evidence
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
. . . ? !
bn
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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre
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