Nikhil Sinha is our colleague from India. In 2007 there was info on the net about his conlangs. The most interesting of them for me was Indika, based primarily...
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lingwadeplaneta
Aug 3, 2010 8:10 am
One of the main difficulties is the presence of tones. If disallow tones, then you can import at least 4 times less words, e.g. you have to decide whether "HE"...
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cafaristeir
Aug 3, 2010 10:22 am
Hao dey kare Dmitry ! walaa, me bu mog ofni linka kon may kompyuta; pliz mog yu dai a nu direktem linka hir ? shukran ! (and sorry for the poor level in LdP) ...
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lingwadeplaneta
Aug 3, 2010 11:27 am
Fail es in sey paja: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/worldlanglist/files/ Direkte linka es: ...
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cafaristeir
Aug 3, 2010 4:14 pm
Shukran-gro, kare Dmitry. But now I can't even reach the xls.document at all... Please, could you simply copy-paste hereunder the link to N.Sinha's websites ?...
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Stephen Rice
ansric
Aug 3, 2010 4:48 pm
... Even with tones you get homonyms. That's why you have to double up with compounding to avoid ambiguity sometimes. The idea is: if somehow (say, with a...
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Stephen Rice
ansric
Aug 3, 2010 5:00 pm
... The site apparently no longer exists; that's why he had to use old files from his computer. Perhaps he can e-mail the files to you. If the gentleman can be...
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cafaristeir
Aug 3, 2010 7:19 pm
Thanks to another programme, I could retrieve his email address, and I've just written to him, inviting him to join us on this yahoo group. Likewise, I could...
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lingwadeplaneta
Aug 3, 2010 8:32 pm
... I conclude that you have some Microsoft product on your computer with its latest "security"; system that blocks downloading of any XLS or DOC files unless...
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lingwadeplaneta
Aug 3, 2010 8:44 pm
... I wrote to Mr Nikhil Sinha 3 years ago, with some questions on his word choice, and he answered me briefly, so in principle he is ga kontaktibile, as...
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lingwadeplaneta
Aug 3, 2010 8:51 pm
... A good idea. Perhaps mine would also end up with adding a particle to every root....
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Aug 4, 2010 5:17 am
... I've been in intermittent contact with him over the past three or so years, maybe more? I hesitate to speak for him, but I'm pretty sure he told me that he...
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risto@...
rkupsala
Aug 4, 2010 6:01 am
I would welcome mister Sinha to our list. The word choices of Indika give us a glimpse of what Indian words could be included in worldlangs, but was it ever...
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cafaristeir
Aug 4, 2010 6:55 am
Quite so ! Indeed, (I have Windows 7) I haven't installed their version of Microsoft Office with Word and Excel because you must pay after 60 days. (instead, I...
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rico_harrison
Aug 4, 2010 12:57 pm
There was some discussion of Indika in the Conlang list in June 2003. You can look there to see a wordlist and some bits of the inventor's thinking. Here is a...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Aug 5, 2010 7:05 am
... Role marking couldn't work either. "Drink" can be a noun too. The only way to really make the whole think work would be to just accept the face there...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Aug 5, 2010 7:10 am
... Or try Cantonese instead of Mandarin. It retains the final consonants. The other issues is normalizing the vowels. Pinyin really does a poor job of...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Aug 5, 2010 7:13 am
... Please post somewhere or e-mail to me. I'd like to have it for reference....
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Aug 5, 2010 7:18 am
... Micro$oft? Who's that?...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Aug 5, 2010 7:39 am
... I'm sorry to hear that. ... There are free versions of the viewers for Excel and the others on M$'s website. You just won't be able to edit the documents...
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lingwadeplaneta
Aug 5, 2010 12:52 pm
... It must be somebody really harsh and rough, since he is soft only to a micro extent....
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Dana Nutter
sasxsek
Aug 5, 2010 7:22 pm
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:50 AM, lingwadeplaneta ... I always tought "micro" and "soft" were references to BG's love life....
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Aug 6, 2010 5:07 am
... Come on guys, let's not open the gates to that discussion. . . Jens Wilkinson Neo Patwa language: http://patwa.pbwiki.com...
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Risto Kupsala
rkupsala
Aug 8, 2010 7:47 pm
Hi, I think it is impossible to base a conlang on only Mandarin. It is necessary to remove the tones and that alone results to too many homophones. In addition...
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cafaristeir
Aug 9, 2010 4:20 pm
Sellamat Risto ! ... I agree. ... OK, but if you take only monosyllabs without tones, that means you'll need a big number of different sounds (see SAmbahsa,...
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Risto Kupsala
rkupsala
Aug 10, 2010 8:14 pm
... It depends on the number of root words. I was thinking about the oligosynthetic approach, where the number of root words is relatively low and compounding...
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risto@...
rkupsala
Aug 30, 2010 1:13 pm
Hello, I have made some changes to Pandunia, which are currently documented only in the Finnish web page and in my notes. I decided to write a quick update in...
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Stephen Rice
ansric
Aug 30, 2010 5:05 pm
... I'm of two minds about this. The system described is relatively quick and easy, but I don't like loading extra information on a word. I'd prefer to...
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Dana Nutter
sasxsek
Aug 30, 2010 7:23 pm
... I think this is a good idea overall. I think a derivation helps greatly in economizing the vocabulary while also providing a bit of clarity. My only...
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Risto Kupsala
rkupsala
Aug 30, 2010 8:52 pm
... I don't share your view. Sometimes it is unclear what is the original lexical object and what are derivatives. In Arabic k-t-b root produces "kataba" (to...
