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Re: Listening to Conlangs

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Saturday, December 28, 2002, 16:12
that's really lovely, Terry!  My husband came into the room and said,
"What's that?  Is that a lullaby?"
Sally
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrence Donnelly" <teresh_2000@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: 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 > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com >