Re: The League of Lost Languages (was Re: Fakelangs)

Sent yesterday. I managed to hit my daily limit, so it bounced. Here it is
again...

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:56:34 +0200, Jörg Rhiemeier
<joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:22:49 -0400,
> Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
>
>> Pencil me in, please.
>
> Done.
>
>> It's a (partly-)laryngeal-retaining satem IE language
>
> A satem version of Hittite, so to speak?  Sounds interesting.
Well... Not exactly. It has a feel more like Greek than Hittite, to me --
not that I know either language. H1 often becomes {h}, and H2 and H3
sometimes become {q}, but the rules on exactly what the process is, and on
what happens to neighboring vowels and liquids aren't entirely clear to me
at this time. Notice that Thagojian exists primarily (almost entirely, in
fact) in orthographic rather than phonemic notation -- it's a dead
language, after all. There seems to be some debate among scholars as to
the exact realisation of various phonemes, particularly about the nature
of the vowel harmony system, for which the native writing system is
defective.

> How did Thagojian wind up in the area where it is spoken?
> "Sea Peoples", perhaps?
No idea. I guess we'll find out soon enough, though. Note that in addition
to the newer Greek-like alphabet, there's an older syllabary,
approximately related to Cuneiform as Demotic is to Egyptian Heiroglyphs.
I think they made the journey over land rather than sea.





Paul