<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Don't forget the Catulli Carmina - equally good if not better bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 11:49 AM Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">My top dozen:<br>
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American Sign Language<br>
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Japanese, because it's pretty, and for the movies<br>
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Spanish<br>
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whichever Chinese language is most spoken outside China<br>
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Lojban. (For a scifi conlang I'd take Lojban's syntax and replace its <br>
lexicon, with Japanesque phonotactics.)<br>
<br>
Classical Arabic<br>
<br>
proto-Malayo-Polynesian, to avoid choosing among its descendants<br>
<br>
Classical Irish<br>
<br>
Finnish, partly because I have several discs of songs in Finnish; partly <br>
because of Tolkien.<br>
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the ancestor of some large New World family, such as Na-Dene or Algic<br>
<br>
Middle High German, as in the Carmina Burana; I like its flavor<br>
<br>
Classical Chinese<br>
<br>
...<br>
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and because there's no such thing as enough:<br>
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Hindi, for the movies<br>
<br>
proto-Bantu<br>
<br>
Plains Sign Talk<br>
<br>
Etruscan -- I'd pass it off as my own conlang. ;) Etruscan interests me <br>
partly because I suspect that a large fraction of Roman names come from <br>
Etruscan. Latin is (afaik) the only major branch of Indo-European that <br>
lacks a tradition of dithematic names (like Will-helm, Vladi-mir, <br>
Aristo-sthenes).<br>
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Old Norse<br>
<br>
proto-Italo-Celtic<br>
<br>
Volapük<br>
<br>
proto-Dravidian<br>
<br>
British Sign Language<br>
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*\\* Anton Sherwood *\\* <a href="http://www.bendwavy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.bendwavy.org</a><br>
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