Re: Slavic Conlangs (was Re: Hello to you all!)
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 1, 2002, 13:54 |
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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:10:34 +0200, Y.Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
>Dzien' dobry, Janku!
>I've been trying for a couple of weeks to find time to refresh my Polish,
>but still failed... Classes smtimes are soooo numerous and exhausting even
>if you're a teacher, not a student...
Takie jest zycie, nic nie mozna na to poradzic, niestety!
>> Is North-Slavonic interesting?
>Very interesting! What would be peculiar to them?
One funny thing of most North-Slavonic languages, is that they seem to have
been under the strong influence of the Scandinavian languages, mainly Norse
(Seversk, Sevorian). Maybe just because it's nice to see characters
like "ø" and "å" appear in a Cyrillic/Slavonic script, who knows?
My languages are far from the original Slavonic roots in this sense, that
they have undergone some sort of Germanic soundshift, which might make them
look funny or strange to a Slavic speaker.
I must admit that it might have been more logical that a North-Slavonic
language would be influenced by the Uralic languages (Komi, Mordvin or the
like), but unfortunately, I just miss the knowlegde about them.
>Waiting impatiently. The idea of Slavic conlangs is pretty interesting. I
>don't think many people try it. I've got a couple of ideas, a definetely
>naturalistic "just one more Slavic", and another one inspired by some
>recent references to Tok Pisin - so it shoud be a Russian-based pidgin. But
>they are still just ideas... No time for art -- poor me!
Well, I hope I can motivate you to carry on. Both ideas sound very
interesting to me. It's true, I have seen very little of Slavic conlanging,
although the possibilities are many, I think. And since Celti-Conlangers
seem to have such a good time together comparing, mixing and blending their
languages, why couldn't Slavi-Conlangers have the same fun?
I will definitely have a look. But to be honest: my Russian isn't that
good. I can read it and understand most of it, but writing a whole text,
that's a different story. Besides, my keyboard is not exactly created for
writing in Russian. I know, it's a poor excuse, but nevertheless the truth.
Does the Russian-languages branch also support Polish?
Jan
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