Re: Data and Musings...

As for me, I have:

General Finno-Ugric: 2
   "Introduction to Uralic Linguistics" in Hungarian
   "Proto-Finno-Ugric Antecedents of the Hungarian Phonetic Stock"
Hungarian: 7
Votian: 3 books, many papers
Kreevinsh: 1
Selkup: 1
Tundra Nenets: 1
Vepsian: 1
Livonian: 1
Finnish: 3
Estonian: 2
Udmurt: 1
Mansi: 1
Khanty: 2

Icelandic: 4
Norwegian: 1
Swedish: 1
English: 2
German: 4

General Romance: 1
   "Vocalisation de la consonne L dans les langues romanes"
French: 6
Portuguese: 1
Latin: 3
Romanian: 1

Polish: 2
Slovak: 1
Serbo-Croatian: 3
Sorbian (Lusatian): 2
Old Church Slavonic: 2
Russian: 3

Albanian: 1

Greek (Modern): 1

Turkish: 1
Uzbek: 1
Mongolian: 1

Haida: 1

Mandarin: 2

> (Includes grammars, dictionaries, and literature)
(but not counting non-linguistic materials, eg. novels and such)

> Anyway, ob-conlang:  I hadn't thought of it before, but now I'm wondering
 what my language-learning choices have to do with my conlanging.
  (Thanks again to Tom for this seed of contemplation.)  There's
 only one non-IE language on there (Japanese, so as to aid
 in learning Go); most of my "serious" conlangs beg, borrow and steal
 liberally from IE languages.  (I actually feel sort of guilty
 about it.)  Do most Conlangers borrow freely from the languages
they know, or try mightily to separate them?
>
My languages generally are a posteriori, so naturally I have to know
something about its relatives; but, I have worked on a few a priori
languages, but these are generally just to test ideas out, and once the
idea is tested, the language is thrown out. The words of these
"test" langauges come mostly from whatever pops into my head, be it
something completely random like "rklt" or something from a natlang I
speak, though I avoid using words from my conlangs.

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