Re: Listening to Conlangs

--- Peter Clark <peter-clark@...> wrote:
> On Friday 27 December 2002 10:56 am, Terrence
> Donnelly wrote:
> > I have a Vogu lullaby at
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/teresh_2000/peswina.html
> >
> > Just a .wav file, nothing fancy.
>
>         What's the background on Vogu? "Spita" seems
> very Slavic, but the rest
> doesn't ring any bells for me.
"spita" does come from Russian "spat'" 'to sleep'.
A lot of the vocabulary is based on Russian, also
a lot on Chinese and Swahili (I think; it's been
a long time!).

Vogu itself is a priori, spoken on a parallel Earth
that parted company with our own about 35,000 years
ago.  It is largely inspired by Swahili and just
about any agglutinating language you want to name.

>         And is that your daughter "accompanying"
> you? :)
No, she was a few years too old by then.  The "baby"
is just a sound clip I dropped in.

>         :Peter
-- Terry

http://www.geocities.com/teresh_2000
http://www.geocities.com/weseb_2000

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