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
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