Re: Good reads for the novice conlanger?
| From: | julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 6, 2002, 12:59 |
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:43:42 +0100
bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> wrote:
> my other suggestion is just borrowing self-teaching
> books on various natlangs ( or reading them in
> bookshops ) as a good way of finding out
> possibilities.
Yes, this is certainly the best thing to do.
Anyway, an excellent book is _The Origin of Language_ by Merritt Ruhlen. It is easy to
read, fascinating and it gives you a good overview of the phonetics of the
languages of the world : it's not intended to teach linguistics, but you can
find there plenty of words from so different languages, and Ruhlen's hypothesis
is really interesting.
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