Melanaq is most definitely constructed.
First of all, you'd expect some European language or dialect to have picked
up on a few of its phonetic properties, but this is clearly not the case.
Secondly, a lack of borrowed words in a European language is absurd. The
only European language that I know of with very few loans is Icelandic: the
creator of the language had probably heard about Icelandic and wanted to
emulate it.
Thirdly, it is doubtful that Melanaq could have survived up until the 1990's
in America, where languages tend to disappear very quickly without a steady
influx of new immigrants.
Finally, Melanaq is not listed anywhere in the Ethnologue
(
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/), and I have found that resource to be very
reliable so far.
Chris
http://www.christopherstraughn.com
Home to Chris's constructed language, Arawyay.
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