Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan

Padraic Brown wrote:

>
> > There have been several fannish attempts to invent a Vulcan language.  (I've
> > seen one of them; it looked to me like crudely relexified Japanese.)  But
> > none of them have any relation to the "Vulcan" dialog in the movies.
>
> This didn't happen to be the Starfleet Academy Training Manual "Vulcan
> Language Guide", would it?  I wish I could find that little Japanese
> dictionary that this work seems to be lifted from; but alas I fear it lost
> somewhere.  And of course I don't know any Japanese, so can't comment on
>
> Padraic.
>
One day I was looking at a site about a language called 'Mingo', which
was an Iroquoian language spoken in West Virginia. That was a couple of
years before I got on this list and learned what 'relex' meant.

But anyways,  I was stunned as I perused that page. It appears to my
untrained eye that Klingon is a 'Mingo' relex

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.

-Duke Keenan (MacCumhal)