Re: Crazy Ideas Of The Week

Danny writes:
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This weekend, I was cleaning out my brain and found this:

1) An idea for a conlang, which I may never do any work on, so anybody who's
up for the challenge, go ahead!  I won't sue.

The people are Indo-European, specifically Iranian (probably descendants of
the Medes).  The language has a grammar much like Avestan, but with a lot of
Semitic and Kartvelian borrowings, so it can have a pretty hairy grammar,
with inflections and affixes making some pretty scary verb forms.  A lot of
Semitic (Aramaic, Arabic), Persian, maybe Greek and Turkish borrowings.

I have no name for the people or the language, but they are situated between
Lake Van, Turkey and Lake Urmia, Iran, are about 50/50 Muslim and Assyrian
Christian, and write in a variety of scripts (Syriac for the Christians,
Roman and/or Arabic for the Muslims -- possibly also Cyrillic if speakers
are found in the former USSR).
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AFMCL:

I don't have an atlas handy but based on "Turkey" and "Iran", that sounds a fair
bit like the original Wewnet homeland.  Recently, I've begun to feel they may
move onto the same "lost continent" (North / West Europe, ish, or maybe west a
bit from Iberia) as the s[aghyaad_zi (my earlier phono post) and the m"/21aw.
The whole epoch is several kya, however, so they're probably not the same people
anyway.



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