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On 31 May 2008, at 10:58 , eldin_raigmore wrote:
However, I find myself mildly handicapped by good resources discussing the development of Sanskrit and Avestan from PIE.You mean the _lack_ of such resources, right?
_Lack_, yes! :) Gosh I've called, the dual a case and left out words ... I've not been doing well this past week!
You should look at the "Resources" threads on the ZBB, the CBB, Sano's Scriptorium, and Vreleksa. I don't know if they have such resources listed there but it seems awfully likely, especially the ZBB's and CBB's. spinnoff.com/zbb and look for "resources" in the "L&L Museum" conlanger.com/cbb and look for "resources"
Thanks -- I'll check those links out.
Can anyone recommend any books or, failing that, web sites?I hope so. But at the moment, at least, I'm not one of the "anyone".
Doing the obvious, like a quick Amazon search, turned up a few interesting looking but rather pricey academic publications -- and I think I need to start with something more basic, since Indo-Iranian is well out my (actually relatively shaky) comfort zone of IE. Doesn't seem as "popular" in the English-speaking world, with consequently fewer resources than Germanic, Romance, Celtic, Greek, etc.
But, as I hope with Egyptian, my shear ignorance will (in a way) liberate me to be a bit more creative with the conlanging aspects. I'm most familiar with Germanic languages, and have a terrible time doing Germanic conlang work because even I know too many of the rules to be comfortable casually breaking them. ;) In Egyptian or Indo- Iranian I simply don't know enough not to simply make up lots of stuff.
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/