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Shalom, Eamon! Great to hear again form you. We missed your so much... Eamon wrote: > --- Isaac Penzev wrote: > > > I personally think, since most of their speakers are > > Pagans (with only some exceptions), they would better fit into the > EA > > athmosphere. WA lies mostly in Abrahamic tradition... > > This is a valid point. In the intro to the EAC workshop (which was > meant strictly as a list of suggested languages or inspirations) I > included "the scriptural languages of Buddhism" (which include > Sanskrit and Pali) because of their enormous impact in Far East and > South East Asian culture, religion and society. There's also the > matter of the spread of Indic writing and linguistic influence > throughout South East Asia and Indonesia. Yes, that was the main consideration why I redirected Nathaniel to you. The matter of Indic writing was also a sensible reason. > Years from now I'll get around to an Aboriginal Australian project; > an argument could be made for putting that in East Asian Conlangs as > well, rather than start a group for languages that - oddly! - don't > seem to attract much conlang attention. (Correct me if I'm wrong) Or I may widen the topic of Amerind conlangs and turn it into smth like "First Nations based conlangs". It might attract Africanists too. Just as Nathaniel wrote: > Africa being such a linguistically diverse continent, how would you > count Bantu, Khoisan or other non-Afro-Asiatic languages in Africa? > Maybe we should start africonlangs. After all, Arabic, Hausa, Somali > and Amharic can be grouped with westasianconlangs, That's absolutely true. They were grouped here from the very beginning. > but Swahili, Igbo, > Yoruba or Zulu can't. They're certainly not East Asian. True. See the proposal above (about "First Nations"). I think it may work. > Cheers, > Eamon -- Yitzik