Re: Hattic (fi: Chelume - My Conlang website up)

On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 06:44 AM, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
[snip]

> *Two* natlangs? I must admit that this is totally new to me. I am
> astounded. I
> know of course of Anatolian Hattic. But are you saying that there
> actually is
> another Hattic, spoken in Siberia?
That's what I'd come across a early in December - but being somewhat busy
with
the run-up to the end of the College term, I didn't follow this up.
However,
after your mail, I did do some serious Googling.  I find no other
references and
I feel fairly certain I must've I'd stumbled across something by a guy who
was assuming _your_ Hattic was for real or some reference to your site that
gave the impression that 'twas   :-D

> If that it so, I should perhaps rename the language after all... Two
> languages
> of the same name is one thing; two languages of the same name spoken in
> one
> country is another.
Nah - I think you're OK. I tell my students not to assume that just because
something's on the Internet it must be true; I must be more careful next
time :)

The ancient & long extinct non-IE Anatolian lang is too clearly different
in both
time and place to get confused with your Hattic.

BTW in my searching, I had another look at your pages - great stuff!

Another site I like where the author describes his conlang as tho it were
a natlang
is Maurizio Gavioli's Kinya:
http://art.supereva.it/mgavioli.dadacasa/Kinya
Well worth a visit (one of my favorite conlangs).


Ray
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