> Hi all,
>
> I just finished reading a paperback by John McWhorter called The Power of
> Babel. In it, he writes about the sheer variety & diversity of language
> while
> discussing dialects, language change, dialects, areal linguistics,
> dialects,
> pidgins, creoles, semi-creoles, dialects, social distinctions, formality
> distinctions, written vs oral distinctions, and more about dialects. I
> liked
> it a lot.
>
> In reading this, my occasional stray thought that Kélen is actually a
> creole
> language between human (probably English, or something Western-European)
> and
> Terjemar-an (the planet) has solidified into fact. So, I can now begin
> with
> figuring out Kélen's antecedents. I'm fairly sure Terjemaran has tones,
> too.
> In a couple of years, when I have something solid enough to present
> <grin>,
> I'll let you know what it looks like.
>
> -Sylvia
> --
> Sylvia Sotomayor
> sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
> kelen@ix.netcom.com
>
> Kélen language info can be found at:
>
http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html
>
> This post may contain the following:
> á (a-acute) é (e-acute) í (i-acute)
> ó (o-acute) ú (u-acute) ñ (n-tilde)
>
> áe ñarra anmárienne cí áe reharra anmárienne lá;
>