Re: [nunn] Indika and Nihilosc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [nunn] Indika and Nihilosc


> --- Nikhil Sinha skrzypszy:
>
> > Belated Happy Birthday first of all.
>
> Mólt gratlu.
Understood what it means - which language is it?
>
> > The first conlang is not akin to any spoken language. It is just made
up.
> > Its called Nihilosc (a corruption of my name).
> >
> > The second one is Indika. It has a vocabulary based on Hindi, Sanskrit
and
> > English. The grammar is based on Esperanto. These are the four languages
I
> > know. Of course, I cannot speak Sanskrit and Esperanto very nicely.
>
> See below.
>
> > Have you made any conlang? I would love to know about it (them).
>
> Yes, as least four. My main project at the moment is Wenedyk, a Romance
conlang
> that underwent the same development from Vulgar Latin as Polish did from
> Proto-Slavic. It's webpage is
> <http://www.geocities.com/wenedyk/language/index.html>
> Furthermore, I have Hattic and Askaic, two closely related Indo-European
> languages (an obsolete website about Hattic is at
> <http://steen.free.fr/hattic.htm>, but I intend to renew it soon). And
last but
> not least, there is Vozgian, a (North) Slavic language. This was my first
> conlang, and recently I started to redo it from the beginning.
>
> > Is the word skrzypszy Dutch for 'wrote'? You have a yahoo.co.uk address,
> > then how does your reply has the message that 'Nikhil Sinha skrzypszy:'?
>
> No, it is Wenedyk for "wrote" (Latin "scripsit" > Wen. "skrzypszy"). The
Dutch
> word would have been "schreef". As for my address, well, there is no
> "yahoo.nl", and the UK comes closest at least. The additional advantage of
a
> British address instead of a "yahoo.com" address is that I almost don't
get any
> spam.
What I really wanted to know is how you get headers like skrzypszy and nunn
in your mails. Do you tupe them everytime you send a message?
>
> > Dutch is similar to English, isn't it. I heard Dutch yesterday in my
> > multimedia encyclopedia. I believe the equivalent of 'My name is...' is
'Mia
> > naam iz...'. Of course I do not know Dutch orthography.
>
> Well, Joe got it right. It would be: "Mijn naam is ...".
>
> > You can visit my conlang websites:
> > http://www.geocities.com/nihilosc/index.htm
> > http://www.geocities.com/nsinha_2003/index.htm
>
> I have had a very quick look, but not the time yet to read it more
carefully.
> Indika looks a bit like a Romance language to me (which to my taste is a
good
> thing!), but I really need more time.
>
> Jan
Though the vocabulary is predominantly Indo-Aryan I have given it a Romance
look with the use of words like la, un, multi, etc. It has a grammar akin to
that of Romance languages - not that of Indian languages. I use preostions
in Indika, like European languages. Indian languages use postpositions
instead.

Nikhil


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