[conlang_learners] IE vs non IE

[Olivier Simon]

Sellamat Arthaey !
 
I see that Jim has already given you a good answer, thus I've got little to add. 
It's good to put the vocabulary issue apart from the grammar issue. To speak simply, I would say there are two important criteria to characterize 

--- On Sun, 6/14/09, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Arthaey Angosii <arthaey at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [conlang_learners] IE vs non IE
To: conlang_learners at conlang.org
Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009, 4:03 PM


English is my native language and Spanish is the only other language I
can hold a conversation in. So while my artlang Asha'ille is a priori,
I'm "concerned" that it adheres too closely to whatever makes IE
languages look IE.

What are the defining characteristics of an Indo-European language,
con- or natlang? (Apart from shared vocabulary/etymology, of course.)
What grammatical features make a language IE-like? Are those features
found also in non-IE languages?


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