Atlantean (was Re: Chelume - My Conlang website up.)
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 8, 2004, 20:48 |
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Hallo!
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:31:54 -0500,
"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:04:34AM -0800, Gary Shannon wrote:
> > Intersting thought. Has anyone ever tried to pass off
> > a conlang as "the real and true language of ancient
> > Atlantis?"
>
> You mean, other than Marc Okrand's Atlantean (created for
> the wretched Disney movie)? :)
Actually, my Hesperic family is a candidate for the language
of ancient Atlantis. My personal opinion about the Atlantis myth
is that Atlantis was an ancient civilization that existed on the
British Isles prior to the arrival of the Celts. It is the same
people who surface in Celtic and Germanic mythology as "Elves",
and Hesperic is their language. Of course, I don't claim that
Hesperic is indeed what was spoken in Britain back then, it is
just my speculative fancy about what that language *could* have
been like.
Greetings,
Jörg.
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