Re: Lexeme Request: Water and Fire

David J. Peterson wrote:

>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:
Rhean:

fire - ghuf
water - šula

Omurax:

fire - tioda
water - mil

Tolborese:

fire - sèbèng
water - yap

>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.
Right now I'm working on a verbless language called Omurax, which has been
an off and on tinkering project for the last couple of years at least. Used
to think that was really strange, but verbless conlangs aren't so rare
anymore. Maybe you could do a little section on people's different
strategies for doing away with verbs, or even doing away with nouns which
some conlangs have also done (not aware of any that have ditched both, though).

M