Re: basque article

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 04:42:28 -0700, Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:

>I've been doing a second language, and i wonder has anyone here taken
>ideas from Esperanto? I took the affix ideas for nouns from it ( as well
>as for adjective and adverbs). I did make up affixes of my own, so it's
>not a complete theft :). This language i'm working on is more personal
>than anything else, so it doesn't have anything really exotic (i am not
>building a culture up around it......i still havent done a lot on my
>present conculture :)).
I've done two languages (Deverrin and Sari) that were inspired in part by
Esperanto, back in the early 80's when I was still in high school and any
information about conlangs was hard to find. Both these languages have
tables of correlatives that were similar in pattern to Esperanto, and =
they
used negative prefixes instead of separate roots for antonyms. Sari even
used -n for the accusative case. Deverrin, the later language, was less
similar to Esperanto, and eventually evolved to be more like my Alzetjan
Elvish language.

The idea of using final vowels to distinguish parts of speech is one that
I've borrowed in a number of languages or sketches, such as Jaghri and an
early version of Eklektu.=20

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