Re: CHAT: query: where to start?

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I've been semi-lurking since I got on this list.  I suppose you might
> > call me a beginning conlanger; I printed out something like 150 pages of
> > conlang material from the web for personal reference this summer!
> >
> > Anyway--I've been working on an ancestor language for a language in a
> > story (how's that for too many prepositional phrases?).  I read an
> > article on Arabic morphological structure, and thought, What a neat
> > idea!  So I've been using three-consonant morphemes, with affixes to
form
> > root verbs, adjectives, etc.
> >
> > However, I *don't* know any Arabic except "salaam."  :-/  My question
> > was, should I hold off on this until I can learn some Arabic in the
> > nebulous future, and stick to the languages I know something about?
fwiw, I've been working on digitising an English-Maltese dictionary, and
where teh words are of Arabic etymology, I've been marking the root
morphemes. Its not complete by far (ive done about 12% so far), but it makes
interesting reading. I'll email it to anyone for teh asking.

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Fabian
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