> I'm giving another talk on language creation this coming Tuesday,
> and I had a very simple request. I'd like to gather some samples
> of the words (nouns, hopefully) for "fire" and "water" in a bunch
> of different conlangs. Since this is related to conlanging, you can
> reply onlist, but there might be a bunch of replies, in which case
> offlist replies are fine. To get the ball rolling, here's the words for
> "fire" and "water" in several of my conlangs:
>
> Fire:
> Zhyler: dZimwi
> Kamakawi: kava
> Kelenala: asi
> Sathir: jeZin
> Njaama: tS'oozu
> Epiq: naS@
> Gweydr: ?6Ngr
> Sheli: ved
>
> Fire:
> Zhyler: iSwi
> Kamakawi: lelea
> Kelenala: waj
> Sathir: Sawa
> Njaama: aa
> Epiq: ilj@
> Gweydr: hiZa
> Sheli: faj
>
> Also, if anybody has any tips on how to relate language creation
> to typology, I'd be much appreciative! So far I've got a section on
> the history of language creation (necessary), a section on how to
> type created languages (a possible interesting on-topic discussion,
> actually), what created languages can tell us about what people
> think about language, and what created languages can do that
> natural languages can't.
>
> -David
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> "sunly eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."
> "No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
>
> -Jim Morrison
>
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