[conlang_learners] Verdurian

[Padraic Brown]

--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com> wrote:

> > You can recognise a lot of I-E influenced roots in
> > there.
> 
> *nods* Especially Russian, and I think some Spanish and
> French.

Quite a lot of English, too.

> The grammar is also pretty SAE/IE-like, which contributes

Undoubtedly due to its early D&D associations.

> to
> learnability for those of us speaking an IE language
> natively, though
> it might not satisfy people looking for something more
> "exotic".

I don't know -- though a native speaker, I think English is pretty exotic in its own right. But I guess exoticness is largely a function of what you find "normal". Having studied many languages from many different families, I've found that each has a mixture of "normal" and "odd" in it.

Padraic

> Cheers,
> Philip