Model Language

In the novel I'm writing, I am creating an
artificial language based on Proto-Indoeuropean. My inspiration for
this is Tolkien, of course, with his refashioning of Welsh and Finnish
into Quenya and Sindarian. I have no very great ambition for the
project except to generate the names of characters, geographical
locations and the like.

This morning in e-mail generated from the Ancient Near East Discussion
list run by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, I
received some vocabulary from Hattic, a very old non-Indoeurpean
languge from Asia Minor--I thought I would incorporate it anyway,
since in my description of Glotta (as I call my language) I take into
account the presence of loan-words from non-Indoeurpean languages. I
then thought I would search for more Hattic vocabulary on the
internet.

What I found instead was this:

http://www.langmaker.com/

This site is devoted to hobbyists who have each created their own
artificial language (they call them model languages), most of them
based on Proto-Indoeuropean. Each of them has gone into far more
detail than I, producing not only the vocabulary, but complete
grammars and even poetry and literature.

Well, at least this wretched job allows me to conduct such research
(if one may call it that) on the clock.