Re: Native Grammatical terms
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 7, 1999, 18:23 |
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On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Hey, do y'all have "native" grammatical terms in your conlangs? That
> is, have you worked out how the speakers of your conlangs would describe
> their language?
>
Well, I once did translate the native grammar of Denden of Master
Hinadan into Dutch. Unfortunately, the Classical Charyan original
got lost when the St. Petersburg Institute of Oriental Studies was
raided by the KGB just before the end of the Soviet Union, and,
like the cash-strapped student I was at the time, I didn't have
the money to take photographs of the priceless manuscript. However,
there is some small chance that the manuscripts will be returned,
as happened with the Tangut dictionary dr. Ksenia Borisovna Keping
is studying. The Dutch translation is available for the asking -
but it' in, well, Dutch...
Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt