Re: What criteria do you have for your own or others' languages?
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 8, 2006, 13:52 |
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Hallo!
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:04:46 +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Jörg Rhiemeier writes:
>
> [....]
>
> > A fictional ethnic language, on the other hand, should *not* be overly
> > regular and simplistic, but resemble a natlang, and obey well-established
> > linguistic universals.
> >...
>
> Well, this is not necessary if the creator defines the society
> differently. E.g. Vulcans would probably not have an irregular
> language. So the design of the society were the language is to be
> spoken might override the default goals for conlang design that you
> give here.
Sure. There may be such exceptions. One would indeed expect the Vulcans
to speak a loglang. One could also imagine a human settlement somewhere
that has voted to adopt Esperanto or some other conlang as their national
language (actually, Esperanto was under consideration as the national
language of Israel when the state was founded, but the vote went for Modern
Hebrew, itself also almost a conlang). I was thinking of the normal case
of a human ethnic group speaking a language which has evolved over
many centuries.
Greetings,
Jörg.
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