Re: My new project - comments appreciated
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 5:59 |
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:15:23 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> Have language unifications ever
> been done to this extent before and been adopted?
Sounds remarkably like what I've read about how words for Interlingua
were chosen, and how they determined what form the word should take.
Basically, they took the four languages English, French, Italian, and
Spanish/Portuguese (treating the last two as one since they are often
similar) and try to find a consensus root. If they can't, they have a
look at German and Russian as well, for their Greco-Latin borrowings
or possibly IE cognates.
Have a look at http://www.interlingua.org/intro1.html , for example.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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