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Re: Umberto Eco speaks Volapük!

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Sunday, October 5, 2003, 13:55
On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 09:35 , Thomas Leigh wrote:

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> proceeded, by the light of the first stars, towards the plain, each > preceded by its own priests and chanting in its own language the Pater > Noster, with a majestic sonorous effect that had never been heard, not > even in Rome in a most solemn procession: > > Mael nio, kui vai o les zael, aepseno lezai tio mita. Veze lezai tio > tsaeleda. > > O fat obas, kel binol in süs, paisalidumöz nemola. Komönöd monargän ola. > [sic -- TL] > > Pat isel, ka bi ni sielos. Nom al zi bi santed. Klol alzi komi. > > O baderus noderus, ki du esso in seluma, fakdade sankadus, hanominanda > duus, adfenade ha rennanda duus. > > Amy Pornio dan chin Orhnio viey, gnayjorhe sai lory, eyfodere sai bagalin, > johre dai domion. > > Hai coba ggia rild dad, ha babi io sgymta, ha salta io velca..." > > > The first and third also strike me as nineteenth-century conlangs, though > I don't know if they really are.
They're all conlangs, aren't they? One can make an attempt at parsing the first five. The 6th looks rather different; but, as the others are almost certainly conlangs (we know the 2nd one is!), I guess the 5th will prove to be also. ========================================================================= ====== On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 10:07 , John Cowan wrote:
> Thomas Leigh scripsit:
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>> Pat isel, ka bi ni sielos. Nom al zi bi santed. Klol alzi komi. > > Spelin, by Georg Bauer (1889), see > http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/langlab/bibliography.html
Ah, Spelin - one of the many neo-Volapüks that emerged after the collapse of the 3rd Volapük Congress in 1889. The first one looked to me suspiciously like a neo-Volapük and, inspired by John's identification of the third, I've tracked down: Mael nio, kui vai o les zael, aepseno lezai tio mita. Veze lezai tio tsaeleda. Spokil, by Adoplhe Charles Antoine Marie Nicolas (1904)
>> O baderus noderus, ki du esso in seluma, fakdade sankadus, hanominanda >> duus, adfenade ha rennanda duus. > > Carporophilus (1734), author pseudonymous. Google tried to correct this > one to "O buderus noderus, kidu esso in selma"!
I wonder if the last two are from earlier conlangs. IIRC the 17th century saw an outburst of a_priori conlanging. Could #5 date from that time. I know Umberto is knowledgeable about these early conlangs. So four have been identified - just two to go. Can anyone track them down? Ray =============================================== http://home.freeuk.com/ray.brown ray.brown@freeuk.com (home) raymond.brown@kingston-college.ac.uk (work) ===============================================