Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:14:08PM -0400, Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> : I saw it just recently myself.  Has somewhat of a Japanese ring to my ear,
> : but was supposedly developed by Marc Okrand from IE roots.  Okrand claims
> : that he created about 700-1000 words, a script and a rudimentary grammar.
> : There is even supposed to be a training video (ala Berlitz) for the cast.
> : Has anyone found anything on the web about Atlantean?
>
> Nothing meatier than the (mildly silly) Atlantean font at the Disney site.
> There really isn't enough material to learn anything useful about it, unless
> the little children's books they're selling have transcribed Atlantean
> dialogue, which I rather doubt, being that somehow most Atlanteans are
> apparently native speakers of every IE language.
>
> Incidentally, it sounds more Indic than Japanese to me - Japanese is sort of
> hissy/whispery, whereas this has the kind of rapidfire wimpy stop effect of
> overeducated Hindi, minus the weird nasalizations.
Hmm! My mom said, when she saw the commercial, that it sounded like
Japanese. But I thought it sounded almost Slavic, a little bit. Probably
more in the consonants than in the vowels.

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