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Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 22, 1998, 4:24
Keenan wrote:
> 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
Oh? Is Mingo a OVS lang? AFAIK, Klingon has influences from lots of the world's languages. Perhaps Mingo played a big role, but I doubt if Klingon was a relex of it.