Weekly Review #19

Better late than never. I hope you'll enjoy
REVIEW #19, the week from Apr 27 to May 03, 2003

Amerind Conlangs: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amerindconlangs
Complete silence.

Celticonlang: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Celticonlang
53 msgs. Carl Edlund Anderson stimulates heaps of discussions on various technic
stuff: sound changes, vocabulary etc.
- Languages under discussion (natlangs and conlangs): Carl's YUCC, Old and
Modern Cornish, Welsh (and its influence on Cornish and Sindarin), Gaulish,
Arvorec, Manx.
- Hot topics: Cornish (revived) - is it a nat- or a conlang? "Celtic mist" -
myth or reality? Monoglossy or polyglossy - what is normal?

East Asian Conlangs: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eastasianconlangs
19 msgs. New attention to Bauhinese [Eamon Graham]. Explaining tricky Pinyin
transcription of Mandarin.

Germaniconlang: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/germaniconlang
90 msgs, and that's not the record!
- Discussing projects: Føtisk [Tristan McLeay], Capraian and Jameld [James
Campbell], Sealandic [Daniel Ryan Prohaska].
- Hot topics: G. langs classification; metathesis ('waps' instead of 'wasp');
simple vs. compound past tense forms in G. langs and dialects; progressive
forms; Bavarian dialects - the most detailed info you've ever seen!

Romanceconlang: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romanceconlang
The record is beaten! - 105 msgs.
- Discussing projects: Carrajena [Adam Walker] (good sample texts: Paternoster
and Psalm 23), Cagláll [Carlos Reyes].
- Hot topics: Italic languages. Are there any Greek conlangs? How do you say
"It's Greek to me?" in your conlang? Sports and games vocabulary. Passives in R.
natlangs. Origin of -age words. Mutual borrowings in R. langs.
A nice translation exercise.

Slaviconlang: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slaviconlang
2 msgs. What makes S. langs special?

Uraliconlang: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uraliconlang
11 msgs. Proto-Uralic vowel system: what do we find in unaccented syllables?

West Asian Conlangs: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/westasianconlangs
5 msgs. What shall Eamon Graham do to /q/ phoneme in his Arabic creole?

Fuff! I'm intrigued. There was so much activity this week in the workshops!

~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~

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