>> —Are there really bogolangs that take place in a different universe (other
>> than an althistory)? That does sound like an odd setup. Also if it's done
>> just for the sake of not having to think up sound changes, I'm not sure if
>> those would group well together with the "usual" bogolangs. But that WOULD
>> be an easy to way to get a specific "flavor" into a language, starting from
>> a lexically a priori clone of Some Protolang.
>
> Geoff Eddy (known as bricka on the ZBB) has built a family of a priori
> conlangs for his fantasy world, which are in part at least inspired by
> sound changes that occured in Indo-European.  He has an "Irish", a
> "Welsh", a "Baltic", a "Slavic" and even a "Quenya" (who says you
> cannot use the sound changes of another *conlang*?), and several
> others.

Indeed, this doesn't seem to be so rare. Tolkein himself has a "Welsh"
(Sindarin) as well as a Quenya, and my own Yivrian is a part of a
group that contains a Portuguese (Praceo), a Slavic (Tsingrizil), and
a Native American (Hiksilipsi). Only Yivrian, the artlang that started
it all, doesn't have a particular target flavor. In fact, I'd wager
that most people with a priori language families have done something
similar.

BTW, I hate the word "bogolang". We already have the terms artlang,
altlang, a priori and a posteriori--why do we need another term.

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