From: Nils Weinander (nilsw@ibm.net)
Date: Sat 04 Jul 1998 - 00:57:13 EEST
Trotsky:
>
> sapiens. Incidentally, Charles, the Vadeli *are* Wareran; my guess is you're
They are? I thought they'd be considered their own
separate race by now (as would the Teleosans).
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David Dunham:
>
>Sounds like written Chinese to me. Are all the mutually unintelligible
>Chinese dialects related? (They may be, I can't remember.)
They have to be rather closely related as languages
go in so far that the grammatical structure must be
the same.
> > some RW
> > languages are pretty static (such as Icelandic and Greek)
>It's my understanding that Greek had a big vowel shift; modern Greek
>doesn't really use all the classical vowels.
A greek I spoke said that the grammar is similar
between classical and modern greek, and some words,
but that they are otherwise rather different. He
said learning classical greek was almost like
learning a foregn language.
>I wonder if the sagas have anything to do with Icelandic
According to what I have heard it's mainly because
of the geographic isolation which hindered outside
influences from reaching Iceland to a significant
degree.
Julian Lord:
>
>A more useful
>parallel might be Ancient Egyptian, as a Golden Age ideogrammatic script.
But the egyptian hieroglyphs are phonetic.
Peter:
>
>Since that time, it has been learned that Firespeech is not spoken
>by 'salamanders and birds' universally but is your everyday Dara
>Happan tongue -
- -..
>Likewise Earthtongue has been revealed to be the Esrolian Language
Now this is interesting. I guess that means that
Seaspeech is a merman language. What's the source for
this?
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