Re: Newbie says hi

>From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
> > 6) "Tipikyero" - so-called because it was going to be a 'typical' East
>Asian
> > language. There is no such thing of course; what I wanted was a break
>away
> > from European styles of language towards a Malayo-Polynesian type like
> > Indonesian, which I had been looking at at that time. It was to be on a
> > fictional island somewhere near the Philippines. I think I was going to
> > design a syllabary or something.
>
>Though you should be aware that "East Asian" is a very broad category,
>with language families that are very different from each other.
>Malay/Indonesian certainly does not have the syllabic structure the
>Chinese languages have, for instance.
I know, that's what I meant by "There is no such thing of course". I have
had conflicting reports about what families there are in South-East Asia,
but there is certainly Sino-Tibetan and Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) in
the East, and there are others such as whatever Khmer is in, Vietnamese,
Korean and Japanese

>You might also want to look at Gladilation, which has no verbs.
Where can I find that?

Mat


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