Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

On Monday 28 April 2003 12:13 am, you wrote:
> Eamon Graham wrote:
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> 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.
>
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> Wesley Parish wrote:
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> WP> Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
> WP> Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
>
> What language is that?
Te Reo Maori - the Maori language of New Zealand.  A Polynesian language most
closely related to the Cook Islands Maori and the Marquesas languages.  It's
a big inspiration in my conlanging, bigger than Latin or Greek or Hebrew or
Arabic or Old English or Old Norse.

Wesley Parish

--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."