Conlangs (was: Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 61154
Date: 2008-11-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:

> > I really want to know this and therefore also the question of the
> > legitimacy of "palatals" for the sake of establishing the plausibility
> > and credibility of the IE-derived conlangs that I am inventing and
> > have invented.
> > Andrew
> > =========
> > What is this ?
> > Arnaud
> > ======

> Oh, it's this tedious, time-consuming obsession that I developed about
> 16 years ago which grew out of my childhood fascination with the
> history of English (and the resulting interest in Indo-European) and
> Esperanto, the former of which began around age 7 or 8 and the latter
> of which began around age 11 or 12. What I do is I "invent"
> hypothetical languages that _could_ have evolved from
> (Proto-)Indo-European, according to sound-change laws (and grammatical
> evolutions) that I set down and which are based mostly on precedented
> sound changes.

<snip>
> If you ever want to see one, I'll upload it to the files section, if
> it is permitted -- the rules of Cybalist actually forbid this sort of
> thing. I'll have to ask before I can do any such thing.

A more appropriate place for conlangs in general is a group such as
Conlang - recent posts are recorded at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang , but see
http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=CONLANG&H=LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
if you want to join their discussions. Note that it is a **high**
volume list! They often have good general discussions about sound changes.

Richard.