Re: Re- Conlanging

>Acadon wrote
>
><snip>
>
>> Here is a poem in reconstructed Nostratic composed by the late
>> Nostraticist Vladislav Illich-Svitych:
>>
>> K'elHa"         wet'e-i         `aK'u-n         ka"hla
>> Tongue          time-of         water-of        path/ford
>>
>> k'ala-i         palhV-k'V       na              wete
>> gone-of         dwelling-to     us              lead(s)
>>
>> s'a da          'a-k'V          'ejV            'a"la"
>> he but          there-to        come(s)         no(t)
>>
>> ja-k'o          pele            t'uba           wete
>> which-who       fear(s)         deep            water
>>
>> Language is a ford through the river of time
>> It leads us to the dwelling of the ancestors
>> But he does not arrive there
>> Who is afraid of deep water
Uh oh, I guess Tokana is a Nostratic language,
then.  "Water/lake" in Tokana is "kunu" (cf. `aKu'),
"come" is "eta" (cf. 'ejV), and "deep" is "tiuma"
(cf. t'uba).  Obviously these are Nostratic reflexes!  ;-)

Matt.