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Hi, inspired by some Russian enthusiastic mystifiers, who claimed that Slavs did use runes of their own, I have introduced runes into nashica: ...
regis977
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Jan 8, 2004
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... Cool! I know very little (to avoid saying: nothing) about runes, but I like what I see. Anything written in runica? Perhaps these runes were used by the...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 9, 2004
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... I like ... Yes, I am going to fabricate some artifacts, some "photos" of those stellas and some birch bark texts too. But later on... ... Might be, may be...
regis977
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Jan 9, 2004
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Hello, ... That is positively cool! And _cirth_-y - note how turning the vowel upside down makes it nasal, &c. BTW many letters look as if they could be...
Pavel Iosad
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Jan 9, 2004
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Dobryj den' vsim! I'm a newcomer (been lurking for a few months), with a pair of questions for everyone. First, and straightforwardly, where do you all get...
eritain
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Jan 10, 2004
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... Yes, I just took futhark and my fantasy and recasted it little bit as might be the Slavs "did". ... like Xrabr was to write about syncretics like Nashinaci...
regis977
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Jan 12, 2004
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Hello Pavel! Almost two years ago, you wrote in a message to Conlang: "In the con-history, the Slavs moved to the eastern Baltic region in late fourth century....
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 13, 2004
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Hello, ... [...] ... Apart from very few details, yes. ... In the neck of the woods :) ... Well, here are two old maps of Skuodia (non-IB) ...
Pavel Iosad
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Jan 14, 2004
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... I also stole that idea! Lucus' Vinland has no less than twelve thrídjungar (locally pronounced ['hri:uka:]), which is even weirder than the situation in...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 15, 2004
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... How nice! I didn't know about these maps. And I must admit that I never heard about the town Skuodas either. Do you have more stuff like that around? ... ...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 15, 2004
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... [snip] Have you thought about the early history in relation to Vozgians and Nashinaci? Were Skuodians the same migration wave, but stopped "half- way"? Jan...
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Jan 15, 2004
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... That should be ['hri:yu~ka:]! /BP 8^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@... (delete X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__ A...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 15, 2004
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Hello, ... The best English translation for a _thrídjung_ would be _riding_, I presume? As in the ridings of Yorkshire? Pavel -- Pavel Iosad...
Pavel Iosad
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Jan 15, 2004
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... More like the ridings of Canada, where "riding" means "local parliamentary district", and has nothing to do with the number of them. -- John Cowan...
John Cowan
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Jan 15, 2004
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... Actually, shame on me but I've no idea... Do you mean the amount of starts on the US or European flag? Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to make a...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 15, 2004
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Hello, ... Nope :) Ireland was divided into four parts (Ulster, Connacht, Leinster, Munster) but each part was called a _coiced_, .i. a fifth. One may meet the...
Pavel Iosad
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Jan 15, 2004
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Hello, ... Of course, I put them up in response to your question :-) ... Neither did I, until I looked that part of Lithuania up on the map. ... Well, here's a...
Pavel Iosad
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Jan 15, 2004
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... Okay, but that was *before* you started working on the language, wasn't it? Although, do you remember that I discovered the town of Vozhega *after* I had ...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 15, 2004
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Hello, ... No it wasn't! :-) the reason is that the name was based on the town. Here's the first message about Skuodian: ...
Pavel Iosad
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Jan 15, 2004
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... Ah, that explains everything! ... Dear, I had completely forgotten about that message. No wonder: a search in the archives for "Skuodian" won't turn it up,...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 16, 2004
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Hello! The exclamation mark in the subject line may be overkill, but nevertheless I'd like to proudly present to you the beginning of a Vozgian website: ...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 16, 2004
10:32 am
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... I've just given a glance at the site. All I can say, I'm impressed. Deeply impressed. Classics. ... It will need a deeper invetsigation. Anyway, I'm not a...
Isaac Penzev
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Jan 16, 2004
11:08 am
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... Thank you! :)) ... Hmm, personally I like it. ... A good suggestion. I will do that. The only problem with this font is that it seems to lack o-ogonek, a...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 16, 2004
11:21 am
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... Great! Keep it up! BTW some Skuodian dialects have an extended case system too. What seems cool to me, they are apparent only on the nouns - the...
Pavel Iosad
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Jan 16, 2004
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... Thanks, I'll do my best. :) ... I have certainly consider that possibility. The reason I choose differently was that it would rather be a locative with a...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 17, 2004
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... May I propose Gentium, which is very beautiful. <http://scripts.sil.org/gentium> It now also includes beautiful Cyrillic letters. The only drawback is that...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 17, 2004
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... I just discovered that Gentium's set of Cyrillic letters is, alas, not complete. I have som suggestions about the orthography (or course). 1) Have you...
Melroch 'Aestan
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Jan 17, 2004
11:43 am
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... Which IMO is quite a serious drawback. I use boldface a lot for accentuation. ... Which I another drawback. But actually, I am quite satisfied with Yitzik ...
Jan van Steenbergen
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Jan 17, 2004
12:48 pm
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... We already had heavy disputes concerning Vozgian spelling in Marcg 2003. I strongly recommend visit the archives. Most of what you see is the result of ...
Isaac Penzev
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Jan 17, 2004
7:37 pm
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... Because an ASCII friendly transliteration is typically used in email, which typically is viewed in a font like Courier. ... I know, but it always seemed...
Melroch 'Aestan
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