Re: Old European-contact conlang

On 2008-10-07 Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Of course, we as conlangers may play with these hypotheses.
> My Albic conlang family is meant to represent a surviving
> offshot of the "peri-IE" language of my hypothesis.
Which means you can borrow from IE when you feel
like that, and roll your own when you feel like that! :-)

I've never tried an a-posteriori histlang with such a
long timeframe, mostly because I'm deeply sceptical
about such 'deep' reconstructions -- essentially
secondary reconstructions from already reconstructed
languages -- and hence am concerned about realism.

WRT Krahe he apparently was a highly gifted scholar
who ruined his reputation with what my professor
called "his Illyromania and that Old European
business". IMO they are probable -- much more
probable than Vennemann's -- but unprovable
hypotheses; choice meat for conlanging that is!


/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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