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Re: Roll Your Own IE language

From:Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 7, 1999, 2:51
Nik Taylor wrote:

> Edward Heil wrote: > > > > Has anyone out there tried to construct a new Indo-European language, the way > > that Brithenig has been constructed as a new Romance language? > > I've heard of some Germanic conlangs. Tom Wier has _Degaspregos_, a > conlang based on PIE.
Yeah, but all the Germanic languages are based off of the *modern* languages -- I'm not at all sure if they researched what Protogermanic looked like to be able to implement that in their language. And yes, there is my language, but that's not really a hypothetical IE language offshoot (like, as if the Finns had been totally overwhelmed, and all we had left was a language based on PIE with lots of Finnish substratal material and such). Degaspregos is more of, as I say on my site, a "quasi-IAL", in that it uses PIE vocab, and a few grammatical features, regularizes them, and adds a few more, to make an auxiliary language, much like Esperanto. But it has no conculture to it as yet (although the idea did come to me only today that I might like to make one -- which would effectively make it a pseudoquasi-IAL. :) ) And, more importantly, I don't really want to proselytize the language like the Esperantists (hence the "quasi-"). ======================================================= Tom Wier <artabanos@...> ICQ#: 4315704 AIM: Deuterotom Website: <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/eclectorium/> "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." There's nothing particularly wrong with the proletariat. It's the hamburgers of the proletariat that I have a problem with. - Alfred Wallace ========================================================