"Mark J. Reed" wrote:
> I don't think so. I want it to be Indo-European, but not Germanic or
> Italic or anything like that. Not a member of the same subfamily as
> any existing language. The idea is that Indo-Europeans were abducted by
> space aliens and separated from the rest of humanity for thousands of
> years. The end result would therefore logically be expected to be
> different from the way language developed back home.
Would there be any influence from the aliens' language, then? Or were
they just dropped off on some alien world with no further contact with
their mysterious abductors?