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Re: Question

From:Levi Tooker <nerd525@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 16, 2002, 20:26
--- Sudár Balázs <sudika@...> wrote:
> Hi everyone! > > First of all I'd like to greet everyone! I'm only > since the weekend on the list, and I'm interested in > languages because I'm studying German language and > literature. I've also started constructing a few > languages but there's only one ready that far, that > it could be spoken (though it has only 370 words, > but they'll be more soon!) I was told it sounds like > spanish, but it's grammar is far more close to > finnish and hungarian, than german, english or even > spanish. But at the moment I had another idea, but I > had to face a few problems: I imagined a language > that works not as european languages. I've got the > idea from the Khuzdul of JRR Tolkien, that's similar > to arabic and hebrew. I have my own ideas and I also > tried to understand that languages. But there's lots > of things I don't understand. > I have the question if someone knows Semitic > languages and if yes, would help me? I've got ideas > for example about phonology and nouns, but none of > verbs or sentences. > Thank you and best wishes: > Balazs > -- > SUDÁR BALÁZS > sudika@dpg.hu
You may be interested in this essay, which explains how a constructed language might be made with a structure similar to Arabic: http://www.srv.net/~ram/arabic_morphology.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/