Re: Star Trek conlangs besides Klingon and Romulan

Keenan wrote:
>
> 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)
Not familiar with either enough to have an opinion.  Iroquoian lgs
tend to be extreme polysynthetic in nature though.  For what its worth,
it is my understanding the Okrand is a Chumashanist (Chumashan lgs
are or were spoken in California, my memory says they are supposed Hokan
lgs but I could very well be wrong).  If they are Hokan, then they would
not be very much like Iroquoian.  Don't know how relevant any of this
is though.
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