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Re: Rating Languages

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Saturday, September 22, 2001, 22:07
This should have gone to the list.

----- Forwarded message from "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> -----

Quoting Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...>:

> I was once able to write letters in Selang - a language that > was supposed to resemble both Indo-European languages and > Etruscan, so I don't think learning conlangs is silly ;-).
Interesting! This reminds me: after studying a little Etruscan history, I've recently been considering a conlang based on an alternate history scenario in which the "long march" campaign of Vulci, Volsinii, and Clusium in ca. 525 BC was successful against Cumae. The result: Lars Porsenna makes the Etruscan league into a genuine political unit, not just a club of common religious interests. The generations after him carry on his political campaigns, eventually uniting Italy, defeating Carthage, and basically taking on the role of Rome in at least the Western mediterranean. It would probably actually be a group of conlangs whose ancestor is the actual Etruscan of Lars Porsenna's time. One of the problems, of course, is that most of our current knowledge of Etruscan consists of spell formulae and such, so I might have to be more creative in coming up with basic vocab and grammar. I've also been thinking about actually doing some work on C'|ali, whose only presence right now is in loan words in Phaleran. So, I hope to post some of this to Conlang as things develop. (My classes start on Monday, so I might not have much time.) ============================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> "Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn; autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos ----- End forwarded message ----- ============================== Thomas Wier <trwier@...> "Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn; autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos

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