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Re: "new" old conlang stuff

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Monday, November 4, 2002, 21:40
Robert B Wilson writes:
 > i was looking for some information in one of the notebooks i use to write
 > conlanging stuff in and i found some information about some of my (very)
 > early conlangs.
 >
 > one thing i found was a short bit of 'manerau' [m_0@nER\au], from which
 > kono and funarja are descended.  B@nErau is the language reconstructed
 > from kono, funarja, and loan words in kontoko.  the only problem is, i
 > wrote it a LONG time ago, and then copied it several years later (after i
 > had forgotten most of the script), so i don't know what it says.  i am
 > uploading an image of the text to my web site
 > (http://kuvazokad.free.fr/mnrtxt.jpg).  i have figured out some of the

I can't seem to find that file.

 > letters, so i have 'VmV CVVnV sV mV CVCVV', where 'C' represents a
 > consonant and 'V' represents a vowel.  i guess manerau is actually my
 > first and conlang and has the longest continuous existence of any of my
 > conlangs (i'm still working on it, but rather slowly now - kontoko takes
 > up a lot of time and kinsi rorotan takes up most of the rest...), but it
 > is still not very complete (a phrase that i can't read and several words
 > and a bit of grammar reconstructed/invented from kono and funarja).