Workshops Review #03, 2005

Review #03 (covering the period from Jan 16 to Feb 05):

I put authors' names in square brackets, and projects names in figure ones.

A posteriori workshops:

-   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aboriconlangs/
"based on lgs of First Nations, Black Africa, Australian Aboriginals etc."
No activity since Jan 13

-   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Celticonlang/
"based on Celtic lgs"
No activity since Aug 24, 2004. Is the group dead?

-   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eastasianconlangs/
"based on East Asian lgs: CJK, Indochina, India (both Aryan and Dravidic),
Siberia, Pacific Ocean etc."
Links between unrelated languages?

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/germaniconlang/
"based on Germanic lgs"
Proto-Germanic adjectives: degrees of comparison paradigms. Babel text,
McGuffey Lessons 1-6, «Three Rings», pizza package and «The North Wind and
the Sun» in {Intergermansk} by [Pascal A. Kramm]. Sound changes in {Rúmeann}
by [Jú].

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pieconlang/
"based on Proto-IndoEuropean"
No activity since Dec 01, 2004

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/
"based on Romance lgs"
«Purple Cow» in {Uchunata} by [Habarakhe] and {Jovian} by [Christian
Thalmann]. New paradigms for {Old Fortunatian} by [Habarakhe]. Where to find
a good Latin primer?

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slaviconlang/
"based on Slavic, Baltic lgs or Greek"
No activity since Dec 16, 2004

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uraliconlang/
"based on Uralic lgs"
No activity since Aug 25, 2004

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/westasianconlangs/
"based on West Asian lgs: Semitic and other Afrasian, Turkic, North
Caucasian etc."
No activity since Jan 04

Other specialized workshops:

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/neographies/ - conscripts:
Vertical alphabet from [RoboSteve]. "First Script" from [Jeff Jones].
{Sohlob} script from [Benct Philip Jonsson]. Inuktitut syllabary and
dyslexia.

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lostlangs/ - League of the Lost Languages -
[The Sock]'s {Heefanoshaj} verb system. Phenomenon of "echoing" in affixes.
{Da Mätz se Basa} by [Henrik Theiling].

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/use_your_conlang/ - conlangs in use:
In search of New Ideas for Stress.

Sister groups:

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artificiallanguages2/
Spammed with Omnial grammar.

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/langmaker2/
How is a language born?

Groups in other languages:

- http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/ideolengua/ - in Spanish:
Aspectuality in Slavic verb system. Neuter genger in Spanish - is it
possible? Is Japanese agglutinative? Alternative approaches to typology.
What is polysynthesis?

- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ouglopo/ - in French:
A new member is welcomed.

- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/konlang_ru - in Russian:
Mostly testing. How to classify various types of a posteriori langs.

Enjoy your communication!

-- Yitzik