Reanimating Indoeuropean?

Welcome to the Li(nguistic)St(udy)
What are the purpose of constructing your own language? I celebrate your
Gedankexperiment but you must have into account language is a social
phaenomenon rather than an individual creation.

However, Daniel: why did you choose celtic or germanic models? it is not a
million times worthier to re-animate IE itself (despite of all of us
disagree in describing the parent language).

I always wonder if PIE could get adapted to modern life, or the "model" of
World Wide Language is that of the English. I wonder.

Manuel & VENEZIE (VENEZUELA INDOEUROPEA).

>From: d_rock80@...
>Reply-To: cybalist@egroups.com
>To: cybalist@egroups.com
>Subject: [TIED] Celtic Consonant Development
>Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 23:37:52 -0000
>
>Hello Forum:
>
>For the past two or three years, linguistic studies has been a
>semi-obsessive hobby of mine. I have fallen in love with the
>decyphering of the intricate complexities of all forms of language,
>and most especially phonetics and phonology. My passion with
>languages has sparked the creativeness in me to the extent that I
>have
>been striving to develope my own fictional language. In this
>respect,
>as I have recently discovered through the Internet and, most
>influencially, from reading the timeless fantasy novels of J.R.R.
>Tolkien - the godfather of inventing fictional/personal tongue of all
>sorts.
>
>In persuit of creating my personal language, I chose the Celtic and
>Germanic languages as the models for its developement. I've been
>fourtunate enough to study the elementaries of the Germanic languages
>from the limited resources available to me. The Celtic languages, on
>the other hand, have proven more difficult. I have many questions
>regarding their development into each of the individual branches,
>most
>specifically Welsh and Irish Gaelic. I hope that someone can shed
>some light on the subjects below, or at least point me in the right
>direction to find the information I'm looking for. Any help will be
>greatly appreaciated!
>
>1. Where can I find in-depth information on the development of the
>Celtic languages (in general) from PIE?
>
>2. How did the Goidelic languages develop their broad/slender
>consonant distinction? **This is of great interest to me!!!
>
>3. How did the vowels and diphthongs develope from Common Celtic
>through Common Brythonic to Old, Middle, and Modern Welsh?
>
>4. Was it a dialectal variantion that caused Common Celtic R and L to
>change to voiceless RH and LL in Welsh, or was their a specific
>phonetic process that caused it?
>
>5. Is there any resource material (available to the layperson) that
>discusses (in detail) the phonology of all the Celtic languages (but
>most specifically Irish and Welsh)??
>
>Again, any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreaciated.
>Thank you.
>
>Daniel
>d_rock@...
>
>PS- By the way, my highest complements to all those that worked so
>hard on developing these websites, especially to all the information
>Mr. Babaev has provided for all those interested in language! Great
>Job!
>

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