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Re: CHAT: Conlang and Writers

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Saturday, March 13, 1999, 18:05
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Sally Caves wrote: > > I could only manage one! If the Teonim have neighbors, their languagew=
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> > have to be pretty superficial. I'm persistent when it comes to > > sticking with one beloved conlang. >=20 > No problem with that, I've created "languages" that only consist of a > couple of words, and one or two derivative suffixes, purely for the > purpose of word-borrowings,=20
Me too! The Valdyan word for "moon", _lau_, is a borrowing from the Velihan (Velihas is the country to the east; I used to think the people living there were elves, but now I know them better they turn out to be a slightly different kind of humans, created earlier than the people of Valdyas). The Velihan word is _l=E1o_, but as Valdyan doesn't have the /ao/ diphthong (/=E1/ is a very open /a/) it gets borrowed as /au/. I don't know (yet) why the Valdyans borrowed a word for such a common and visible thing, and what their own original word was; there must be a historical or religious reason, but I'm not working on early history at the moment. Irina ira@rempt.xs4all.nl (mailing list address)=20 irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/frontpage.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)