Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, December 23, 1998, 14:54 |
Padraic Brown wrote:
> I've heard some rumors that Klingon was broadly based on Amerind of one or
> more sorts.
Its morphology is broadly American, and indeed it would be easy to
assign it to the native languages of California (as indeed is the
case!), but there is no obvious connection with Mutsun, the language
of Okrand's dissertation.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)