Bala-i-balan (wasRe: new to the list)
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 19, 2006, 7:03 |
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Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
[snip]
>
> BTW if I'm not mistaken Balaibalan predates Hildegard, so
> the first conlangers on historical record were Muslims!
Does it? Hildegard is 12th century - but I thought Bala-i-balan was the
work of an unknown Sufic mystic in the 16th century.
But as I wrote about a week or so back, I suspect conlanging of some
sort or other has been going on for millennia.
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Ray
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