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.