Conlang: Re: Umberto Eco speaks Volapük! (Alex Fink, Oct 6 '03, 14:09)

>On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 09:35 , Thomas Leigh wrote: > >[snip] > >> 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.

From:	Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>
Date:	Monday, October 6, 2003, 14:09