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Re: Fave conlangs and essentialist explanations

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Friday, April 5, 2002, 18:19
I could add another, very simple one:

Madzhi is essentially bastardised Hungarian spoken by various North
American Natives.

----ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Bob Greenwade wrote: > > One that I posted was missed, from the last time Essentialism came up: > > Rav Zarruvo is essentially Native American war chants being attempted > >by a group of dyslexic Chinese with severe indigestion problems, who think > >they're learning Hindi. > > More essentialism: > > Kalini Sapak is essentially Arab spoken by a Swede who doesn't know Arab. > > Andreas > > PS _Kalini Sapuk ginda Irba Sapak, lik Sawud, wa nayn-lusawu Irba Sapak, > supaku sa._ "The Langauge of the Clans is basically the Arab Language, as a > Swede, who doesn't know the Arab Language, speaks it." Irba is a perfectly > normal adjective fromation if "Arab" as a noun is adapted as a (slighly odd) > accusative _Arab_, accusative being the lexical case in Kalini Sapak. > _Sawad_, nominative _Sawud_ is simple the consonants of "Swede" treated as a > Kalini Sapak triconsonantal root - I chose not to use the Swedish from > _svensk_ because it's got a couple consonants too many! Pronunciation is > largely as you'd expect, but note _Sawud_ ['sQwUd] and _nayn-lusawu_ > [ne:n'lusQwU]. > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx >

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