Re: A very short language description (Was Re: Missing Words)

 --- "M. Å." <moriquende@...> wrote:

> Please note that in my case "non-Indo-European" plus
> "not very old" equals
> "somewhat sucking English". ;) Trying to improve it.
Well, I am very very Indo-European, and not very
young, but my English is not at all better. :-b

> The language itself has more influence from Uralic
> laguages, as it is my first bigger conlang.
> The "feel" of sounds (not really enough to say
> phonology) I tried to reach was mostly from Dutch
> and Russian, but I was never very serious about
> this, and I speak neither of them.
You certainly know how to make people curious! Where
is Mamqosian supposed to be spoken?

Well, both Dutch and Russian are well-represented on
this list. If you ever need to know something, just
try me (or one of the others).

> - Maija Åstrand
Cheerio,
Jan


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