Workshops Review #09

REVIEW #09 (covering the two weeks period from Mar 27 to Apr 09):

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 Feb 24.

-   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Celticonlang/
"based on Celtic lgs"
No activity since Mar 17.

-   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eastasianconlangs/
"based on East Asian lgs: CJK, Indochina, India (both Aryan and Dravidic),
Siberia, Pacific Ocean etc."
If Tokugawa had taken France... East Asian (Buddhist) cultural heritage.
What are Tungusic lgs? Why Japanese is most popular?

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/germaniconlang/
"based on Germanic lgs"
No activity since Mar 17.

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pieconlang/
"based on Proto-IndoEuropean"
No activity since Mar 03.

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romconlang/
"based on Romance lgs"
No activity since Mar 17.

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slaviconlang/
"based on Slavic, Baltic lgs or Greek"
Origin of /j/ phoneme in Slavic lgs - (continued).

-  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."
[Habarakhe] in his {Litnit} is playing around with the idea of either using
Latin form and Hebrew vocabulary or vice versa. Hebrew phonology (stops <->
fricatives). Segolates. Some {Judajca} info from [Steg Belsky]. Sibilants in
Semitic and Romance lgs (and their blends).

- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/concreole
"concreoles and conpidgins"
The group finally decided to settle on Yahoo, but shows no indications of
activity.

Other specialized workshops:

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/neographies/ - conscripts:
Another script for {Saalangal} conlang [by B. Garcia].
Pangrams in different scripts.

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lostlangs/ - League of the Lost Languages -
{Ynglesh Lawngwedg} Preview [by Angel]. A question about Stargate Egyptian
(does it have smth to do with LLL, I wonder?) {Mærik} update [by Benct
Philip Jonsson].

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/use_your_conlang/ - conlangs in use:
No activity since Feb 11.

Sister groups:

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/artificiallanguages2/
No activity since Mar 01.

-  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/langmaker2/
[Xenophile] makes an interesting translation into {Dramirsi} - (continued).

Groups in other languages:

- http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/ideolengua/ - in Spanish:
Usual, but already not so paranoic chats about anglophonic imperialism -
(continued). How to construct rapidly phrases in pseudo-English (Spanish
etc.) Analysis of principal components and its application in linguistics.
Problem of classification of Romance languages. Time to learn Chinese! -
will it be easier if written not in hanzi? Coincidences between Welsh and
Hindi. Do new technologies change our languages?

- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ouglopo/ - in French:
No activity since Jan 22.

- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/konlang_ru - in Russian:
Why people do not come?

- http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/kunstsprachen/ - in German:
Creative linguistics terminology discussions. Conlang names in German. The
first NETÜDA (German pronunciation thread), and the nature of German stops.
May we use dialects in the group? - No! Native tongues etc.

Enjoy your communication!

-- Yitzik