Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

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From: "Andrew Nowicki" <andrew@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?


> Eamon Graham wrote:
>
> EG> Not quite so.  Latin expands all the time: from mideval times to
> EG> modern times Latin expands its vocabulary.  New words are coined or
> EG> derived (often from Greek) for science (especially), religion and
> EG> philosophy.  In that sense, it's changing, even if it is not a
> EG> spoken "living language."
>
> OK. I was wrong. Latin does change a little, but there may be
> human languages which are frozen in time for religious reasons.
> Some social animals may also use languages which do not change.
Note that I didn't say 'do change' but 'can change'.  Any communication
system that is, in theory, expandable sufficiently to express any concept
should be considered a language.  This includes expressing new concepts with
existing lexemes, or adding new lexemes entirely.

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>
> Wesley Parish wrote:
>
> WP> Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
> WP> Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
>
> What language is that?
Maori, I think.  Something Polynesian, at any rate.