Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)
| From: | Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 28, 2001, 1:09 |
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: 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.
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Shreyas
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