Re: Judean-Sanskrit/Bantu/Austronesian?

At 11:12 on 22.1.1999, Kenji Schwarz wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Kristian Jensen wrote:
>
> > Here's an idea: Judean-Sanskrit. I know there a group of Jews that
> > live in India. As to when and how they got there, I really don't
> > know. But perhaps a Judean language could arise in India if history
> > presented itself differently.
>
> Off on a tangent, it seems odd that among all the Indo-Europeanists around
> here, no one has done an Indo-Iranian-based conlang.  Even with my
> undergrad degree in Sanskrit-do-you-want-fries-with-that?, I'm not
> volunteering for this, mind you, but it would be interesting.  It would
> sort of round out the con-IE family, along with Brithenig, Jameld,
> Sevorian, etc.
>
> Kenji Schwarz
It just occured to me -- hit me hard, in fact -- that Sanskrit itself is
quite fantastic.  For once I see no scope for conlanging...But OTOH one
could imagine other Old Indo-Aryan dialects spoken by peoples hinted att in
the old literature, or the proto-dialects of Prakrit dialects, or the
Sanskrit spoken by different superhuman groups like Gandharvas or Asuras...
:)

/BP


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