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Re: conlang classification and productivity

From:Dan Jones <feuchard@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 13, 2001, 16:45
David E Bell wrote:

> I never cease to be astounded by this kind of productivity. I have been > conlanging for over 40 years off and on and have succeeded in constructing > exactly ONE conlang, amman iar. I have been struggling for more than a
year
> now to get a second one off the ground, but it still only qualifies as a > sketch, not yet worthy of being called a conlang. How do you guys do
it??? Well, I tend to create language *families* rather than separate languages. I also like everything to be internally coherent; the God.o language came about because I wanted a decent etymology for "crasa", the Aredos word for rose, so I came up with God.o, which is related to Kansú and only has eleven words: 1-10 and r.asi, the word for "rose". It's a bit like Elamite to Kansú's Sumerian. Seeing as Cendos is supposed to be analogous to Europe, I came up with parallel languages, with Aredos as "Latin" and its daughter languages as the Romance family. Kansú is Sanskrit/Sumerian, Bulyth is Romany and Nashauban is Russian/Japanese. Dan, who has far too much time on his hands... ----------------------------------------------- Ka yokonáu iti báyan: "cas'alyá abhiyo". Ka tso iti mantabayan: "yama zaláyá alánekayam la s'alika, cas'alika; ka yama yavarryekayan arannáam la vácika, labekayam vácika, ka ali cas'alyeko vanotira." ----------------------------------------------- Dan Jones