[conlang_learners] Tokana, Itlani, Vabungula...

[James Montgomery]

Thanks for looking into this for us :) I appreciate it.

James

--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jim Henry <jimhenry1973 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [conlang_learners] Tokana, Itlani, Vabungula...
> To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 9:37 PM
> 2009/6/12 Paul Roser <pkroser57 at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Does anyone know what the status of Matt Pearson's
> Tokana is? There is an
> 
> If you manage to get a hold of the full PDF grammar (and
> lexicon?),
> could you post a review of it here?  I've been looking
> at the small
> amount of the grammar that's online, and it's nowhere near
> complete
> enough for us to use for this project; but I remember being
> impressed
> with it when I looked at it some years ago, when more of
> the grammar
> was online.
> 
> I've also been looking at Ashucky's
> Laefèvælisi.   What there is of
> its grammar is intriguing, especially the case system, and
> I like its
> phonology; the long poem in the conlang on the website is
> good
> evidence for its completeness, but it's way too
> under-documented at
> present for us to use for this project.
> 
> Jim Hopkins' Itlani is certainly well enough developed for
> people to
> learn, since Jim Hopkins is reportedly very fluent in his
> conlang; but
> I'm not sure if there are any lessons or grammar
> online.  The
> itlani.org website is gone, apparently, and the darned
> ephemeral ZBB
> has aged off and deleted the Itlani lessons that apparently
> were
> posted there a few years ago.  The links on the
> Learners' Shortlist
> page just go to a couple of pages with Itlani texts, but
> with no
> grammar information at all.
> 
> I'm looking at Bill Price's Vabungula again, which is
> better
> documented than the above-mentioned conlangs, and will post
> a review
> of it here in a few days.  (I'll be out of town Friday
> and Saturday.)
> 
> -- 
> Jim Henry
> http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
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