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Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan

From:Keenan <makeenan@...>
Date:Thursday, December 24, 1998, 18:41
Charles wrote:

> > Keenan wrote: >
> > Is this heresy? Maybe its the reverse and Mingo is the relex of Klingon? > > > > I guess I'll have to get that URL and post it. > > I remember seeing it; it was tied to "Egads", a project of > some CMU students, I think. Searching at www.infoseek.com > I get only dead links now. I don't recall it looking > like Klingon, but K was supposedly similar in some ways > to some American Indian language of the northwest.
I never kept that site in my bookmark file. But doing a search on Altavista for "Mingo" only turned up that it is now a defunct site. It *was* the EGADS project. I who know very little, had hoped that someone more educated on the subject, could look at the site and render their opinion. To ME it looked alot like Klingon. Especially in the way it handled pronouns. You know how Klingon combines the pronouns of who is acting/ who is being acted upon into one word? Mingo also does this. Along with alot of other things, like the rule about the order that fixes can appear in a word . Mingo seemed to have the same categories of fixes and the same rule about where those fixes could appear in the word. Well, now that that link is defunct I'm sorry I mentioned it. - Duke Keenan :)