Re: New Conlang-- Looking for Suggestions!

On Jul 19, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Doug Dee wrote:

> In a message dated 7/19/2004 6:45:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jakob@IMSA.EDU
> writes:
>
>> Thanks to those of you who welcomed me to the world of conlang and
>> gave me
>> suggestions on books-- I'm going to order The World's Major Languages
>> from
>> Amazon.com soon.
>
> Another book I wanted to mention is volume 17 of the Smithsonian
> Institution's _Handbook of North American Indians_.  It is perhaps
> prohibitively expensive
> for many people to buy ( > $100) but it's often found in public
> libraries (in
> my experience in the US).  It has description of 12 languages (about
> 30 pages
> each) plus a lot of other linguistic info.
The chapter on Shoshoni is especially clearly written.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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Grammatica vna et eadem est secundum substanciam in omnibus linguis,
licet accidentaliter varietur. - Roger Bacon (1214-1294)