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Re: CHAT: New to list

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, January 20, 2003, 21:45
On Monday 20 January 2003 9:21 pm, E. Notagain wrote:
> I'm not sure if introductions are traditional here, but I'll take my > chances. > > 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. > 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?
Well, for links about Conlangs http://www.conlanglinks.tk They'll have a link to the ASCII-IPA thing. Anyhow, welcome to the list, and stuff.
> Thanks for any help (and I hope I'm not too hard to understand -- I'm > suffering from a Dr. Pepper overdose), > --Erin Notagain--