Lexeme Request: Water and Fire
| From: | David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 27, 2005, 6:27 |
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I'm giving another talk on language creation this coming Tuesday,
and I had a very simple request. I'd like to gather some samples
of the words (nouns, hopefully) for "fire" and "water" in a bunch
of different conlangs. Since this is related to conlanging, you can
reply onlist, but there might be a bunch of replies, in which case
offlist replies are fine. To get the ball rolling, here's the words for
"fire" and "water" in several of my conlangs:
Fire:
Zhyler: dZimwi
Kamakawi: kava
Kelenala: asi
Sathir: jeZin
Njaama: tS'oozu
Epiq: naS@
Gweydr: ?6Ngr
Sheli: ved
Fire:
Zhyler: iSwi
Kamakawi: lelea
Kelenala: waj
Sathir: Sawa
Njaama: aa
Epiq: ilj@
Gweydr: hiZa
Sheli: faj
Also, if anybody has any tips on how to relate language creation
to typology, I'd be much appreciative! So far I've got a section on
the history of language creation (necessary), a section on how to
type created languages (a possible interesting on-topic discussion,
actually), what created languages can tell us about what people
think about language, and what created languages can do that
natural languages can't.
-David
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