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

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:26:08 -0800, Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
wrote:

>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...
>
>---ferko
You are a conlanger, you have such a miraculous knowledge of both the
Uralic languages and the Slavic languages, and you never tried to create a
North-Slavonic languages? I think that's almost a crime! ;)
Did you never feel tempted?

By the way, tell us something about your Gamyar. Is it an a priori language
or has it been modelled after something? Is there anything more than
(admirable) info about cases and a translation of the Soviet hymn?
As a matter of fact, Gamyar and Vranian are the only conlangs I know about
that use Cyrillic script. But let me warn you: you are going to loose this
monopoly position, soon ;)))

Jan

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