Re: My personal project

Hi, Ray .. Thanks for your comments on the pre-indoeuropean languages.
Actually, having this civilization to be settled in Etruria or Crete would
be a terrific idea (plot-wise) as I set the history to take place during the
arrival of IE hordes to Europe, and I could imagine an interaction between
them and this pre-existing european civilization  (very much like Barbarians
approached Roman Empire). I would take Hittite as an example of this
indoeuropean preliminary language as I have been told is the oldest language
in the fammily of IE.

Regarding your questions:

1) My first language will be most likely IE just because I have not done it
before (creating a language) and my brain is definitely IE (all languages
that I know or speak are indoeuropeans). On the other hand, other languages
like Chinese or Indoamerican languages are not appealing to me.

2) Why create new cases? Well, I would say just for fun and the sake of
creativity (I think that's why we do this).

3) Thanks, again, for the information on tenses in the IE.

4) Thanks for the suggestion on the additional 2nd person.

I love the quote at the end of your message.

Take care.

Antonio

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Brown" <ray.brown@...>
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> Why?  The one certain thing is these languages were not like IE.

> >
> >1.- Inflexions and declinations like Latin and greek.  I want to create
> >new cases (besides the regular Nominative, Genitive,  etc.).
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> Why?
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> >2.-  these AFAIK are believed to have been the ProtoIE ones.
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> >3.- > Then, presumably, they ought also to have an additional second
person
> pronoun & verbal affixes for addressing the deity.
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> Ray.
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> A mind which thinks at its own expense
> will always interfere with language.
>                      [J.G. Hamann 1760]
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