I don't recall anything Sinitic either, but it's not all an Indo-European game, at least :) Khuzdul (the Dwarves' language in The Lord Of The Rings) is not wel

I don't recall anything Sinitic either, but it's not all an Indo-European game, at least :) Khuzdul (the Dwarves' language in The Lord Of The Rings) is not well fleshed out, but was somewhat inspired by Semitic languages, in so far as it had tri-consonantal roots. Klingon was created by a guy well versed in Native American language, and I think I recall reading was somewhat inspired by Inuit's agglutinative grammar. Oh, and Laadan, an attempt at a conciously different perspective in language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Láadan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Láadan