Re: Old European-contact conlang

Den 7. okt. 2008 kl. 11.47 skreiv Daniel Prohaska:

> I'm currently developing a conlang family of a population that
> migrated out of eastern Africa, through the Middle East, Anatolia,
> the Balkans, along the Danube, then into what is southern France
> today across the Pyrenees, then towards the southern tip of the
> Iberian peninsular. Then they develop seafaring capabilities,
> settle on the Canary Islands and from then on become a kind of
> Atlantic version of a Polynesian-type spread across the isles of
> the Atlantic. This migration goes on between 35 000 and 20 000
> years ago.
> The language will be more or less from scratch, but I want to
> incorporate Nostratic and Old European loan words. I would also be
> interested in any conlang that has been constructed for a similar
> time frame and area that "my" population could have come in contact
> with. I would like to incorporate culture-specific loan words that
> are not already "coloured" by my own ideas, to give them a fresh,
> "foreign" feel.
I do have something from that time-frame, a paleolithic culture in
Uriania. But in terms of language I have only a mythical ruler-list,
reproduced at: http://www.ortygia.no/uriania/eldresteinalder-eng.html

The only word with a known meaning I have from their language(s) as
yet is "ti", which means 'land'. But it should be possible to
reconstruct some more from the name list, and from some historical
notes that I have.

I love the idea of borrowing from each other's conlangs in cases
where the cultures are adjacent in physical time and space. I
probably should steal something from Jörg, as the peoples in Uriania
of different ages have been neighbours to his, but perhaps I should
ask permission first.

LEF