Re: Slavic Conlangs (was Re: Hello to you all!)

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:

> 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.
Ferko the Uralist sweeps in to the rescue...

That's a cool idea...I don't know either of the two you mentioned, but I
do know some Mansi and have plenty of information on Udmurt, Khanty, Mari,
Nenets and Selkup (not counting the Balto-Finnic languages, which everyone
knows, though even of that I know mostly about Votian (which I can speak a
bit) and I have information on Vepse and Karelian.

Hm. Say the Mari and the Udmurt together repelled the eastward advance of
the Russians...

> 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?
Or...Serbian?

---ferko