| From: | Kvasir - Vaijskä <kvasir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 27, 2001, 17:18 |
I'm not an expert on telling the difference between proto and later langs, but as i was developping my vocab. i kept in mind with the history of the country. it was more like a compromise between fitting the language with the history and fitting the history consistant the language. Here's how i did mine: (If you read up a bit on fyksland's history, my example will make some sense...) check out the history of Fyksland at http://vaijska.tripod.com/history.htm For example, in the earlier days i drew lots of vocab and structure and even the alphabet from finnish. I later justified the fact by saying that the vikings brought with them finnish slaves to the island etc... As an english speaker i couldn't help but draw on english vocab too. So i justify the fact by having people from the british isles carrying with them Old English migrating to the island. Later i found dutch and other scandinavian languages very appealing so i justified it by saying that the ppl were ruled by norwegians and danish and later dutch who influenced the vocabulary. After all that... i looked at my lang and say hmm it looks too much like a bit of everything... so recently one of my project is to "germanicize" the language so that it loses some of that archaic, finnish flavour. Kvasir --- O'Connell James <jamestomas2@...> wrote:> As I have developed the history of my culture, I have > started to see just how static Elenyo is - and more to > the point, how difficult it would be to create > languages related to itat different stages > realistically. > I need some help with the dachrony therefore - how do > imake realistic changes, except for, for example, > changing letters that exist in the protolang but not > in the later lang. Just deciding that p > b wouldn't > make sense as both letters exist in both the proto- > and later lang. > Also, if I start with the protolang, how do I ensure > that the later lang will have the texture and beauty I > want it to have? > Hope someone here can help... > James > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie-- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su