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Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, November 13, 2003, 16:20
JS Bangs wrote:
 >So I'd like to get a collection of the word or phrase for "language
creation" in a variety of conlangs, so I can combine them into a nice
graphic to use as a header.
> > So if you'd like to have your conlang included, just mail the list with a > translation of the phrase "language creation", as a compound if possible, > and I'll try to include it.
OK. Kash would be _ahatende_ ["axa'tEnde] a verb-noun compd., actually a rather rare construction. ahan-sende create language I immediately thought it would be _añahañi sende_, a noun-noun genitive construction-- añ- ahan- ni sende NOMLZ.-create-POSS. language-- but then I remembered I went to great lengths in the Syntax to say that there is no "objective genitive" in Kash, so this could only imply '*language create(d) [something]', clearly nonsense. Alas, no native script available until I get a working scanner and BUY a working version of Font Creator Program, and redo the whole thing. Ugh.