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Re: CHAT: query: where to start?

From:The Gray Wizard <dbell@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 9, 2000, 19:42
> From: AcadonBot > Subject: query: where to start? > > Recall that the sci-fi novel "Dune" uses an arabic based > conlang. This has been written up (linguistically) in one > of the commentaries.
Indeed, "The Dune Encyclopedia", I believe now out of print, contains about a dozen pages describing the Fremen Language which is traced to the "Terran Language 'Arabiya". I have a very dog-eared paperback copy that must be nearly 20 years old. David David E. Bell The Gray Wizard dbell@graywizard.net www.graywizard.net "Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates