Re: clan of the cave bear conlang

From:                   Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
> hi,
>
> a few years ago i read the _clan of the cave bear_ series (officially
> called _earth's children_, _clan..._ is the name of the first book) by
> jean m. auel.  it's about a cro-magnon girl named Ayla who gets adopted
> by a clan of neandertals when an earthquake kills her family.  it's got
> some amazingly detailed concultural information, but it also has somewhat
> of a conlang.
>
I've never read the books, but I saw the film a while ago.  The film
was a definate "liff", and I'm fairly convinced the books would be
even more so.  I did start thinking about making a similar lang, but
I couldn't find a way to notate it conveniently.  Putting the English
versions of gestures in capitals is at least a way to write down
utterances easily, and seems similar to the method for romanising
cuneiform and some heiroglyphics, where logograms are
romanised with capitals and phonograms are romanised with lower-
case.

Do you intend to develop a lang along these lines (perhaps ur-
proto-rokbeigalm?)  I'd be very interested in seeing what you come
up with.