Re: CHAT: New to list

E. Notagain  <ecg321@...> 2003.01.20. 16:21:09 -5h-kor írta:

Sîyo Tenoher! Hello Notagain!
Silde ta her liyitede qelizad.
Shone the moment when you came to this list.

> I've been interested in languages for as long as I can remember, and tried
> to create one when I was 11, before I had even heard of conlang or even
> Lord of the Rings (which, to this day, I have never been able to read, but
> I speak some Quenya and Sindarin anyway. *shrugs*). The "language" I made
> wasn't really a language at all, just a collection of Spanish, Kemetic and
> Hawaiian words used as a code for English.
Kemetic? Then you started like me, when I was 12.

> In the few years since then I've gotten even deeper into languages, and
> recently (read: about six months ago) discovered that not only do a LOT of
> other people make languages, but there're names for the different types and
> communities of people who do this.
> Naturally, I was (and am) ecstatic to find other people with the same
> interests -- I've been boring my friends and family, trying to teach them
> Meistei and Pr'ii.
> My particular areas of interest are creating the words themselves, followed
> by scripts, followed by grammar and pronunciation (tie).
> My languages are Meisteik, Kaveril, Pr'ii, Ysvanidh, Orantith, Intorith,
> Kazle, and a few other larval langs.
>
> Now that I've gotten the "recap-my-history" thing done, I have a few
> questions: Does anyone know any sites that have Japanese, Chinese (any
> form), or Korean wordlists/dictionaries that have been transliterated into
> English?
> And, does anyone know a good, free online guide to learning any Devangari-
> based scripts? (Bengali is best, but it doesn't matter much)
> AND, where can I find the IPA phonetic alphabet, as applicable to ASCII?
I think both can be found in the links of http://www.conlanglinks.tk
For Devanagari, I recently printed out an alphabet from http://www.omniglot.com

> Thanks for any help (and I hope I'm not too hard to understand -- I'm
> suffering from a Dr. Pepper overdose),
>
> --Erin Notagain--

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