Re: Roll Your Own IE language

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-").


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