[ExI] language lust

[William Flynn Wallace]

Don't forget the Catulli Carmina - equally good if not better   bill w

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:49 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> My top dozen:
>
> American Sign Language
>
> Japanese, because it's pretty, and for the movies
>
> Spanish
>
> whichever Chinese language is most spoken outside China
>
> Lojban.  (For a scifi conlang I'd take Lojban's syntax and replace its
> lexicon, with Japanesque phonotactics.)
>
> Classical Arabic
>
> proto-Malayo-Polynesian, to avoid choosing among its descendants
>
> Classical Irish
>
> Finnish, partly because I have several discs of songs in Finnish; partly
> because of Tolkien.
>
> the ancestor of some large New World family, such as Na-Dene or Algic
>
> Middle High German, as in the Carmina Burana; I like its flavor
>
> Classical Chinese
>
> ...
>
> and because there's no such thing as enough:
>
> Hindi, for the movies
>
> proto-Bantu
>
> Plains Sign Talk
>
> Etruscan -- I'd pass it off as my own conlang. ;)  Etruscan interests me
> partly because I suspect that a large fraction of Roman names come from
> Etruscan.  Latin is (afaik) the only major branch of Indo-European that
> lacks a tradition of dithematic names (like Will-helm, Vladi-mir,
> Aristo-sthenes).
>
> Old Norse
>
> proto-Italo-Celtic
>
> Volapük
>
> proto-Dravidian
>
> British Sign Language
>
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