Tim Smith wrote:
>Interesting. Isn't Chickasaw closely related to Choctaw?
They are very closely related. In fact, for a long time people thought they
were dialectal varients of one language.
>A few years ago
>I read a few paragraphs about Choctaw in Timothy Shopen's _Language
>Typology and Syntactic Description_ and found it so intriguing that I
>immediately started working out a conlang grammar based loosely on it
>(_very_ loosely, obviously, since those few paragraphs are all I know about
>Choctaw).
The grammar of my conlang Telek is very heavily influenced by Chickasaw,
though
I've added noun incorporation and gender (among other things) to spice things
up a bit.
Marcus