Aswad
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It would be my guess that it's an omniglot, derived from the most dominant cultures in the early history of Gor.
For a similar thing, but a different timeline, you might want to have a look at Domeran, the Old Tongue from the Wheel of Time books, which is an omniglot of the languages Jim encountered in his years of service, and later travelling the world, with a few of his own bits thrown in for good measure. The grammar is not PIE, but it's about as comprehensible as you'd imagine a world language a few thousand years from now as being.
The lack of any signs of agglutination, ablaut or inflection (apart from borrowed inflection patterns for individual words, and even that is simplified to a single case) would tend to support the notion that the language is, in fact, an omniglot or polyglot. It'd be interesting to have a corpus to draw on, one of some size, but that's unlikely to happen, I guess. And it'd be somewhat counterproductive for living Goreans on Earth to create and adopt one.
Although, it'd do wonders for the troll factor. 
Pardon my idle rambling.
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al-Aswad.
< Message edited by Aswad -- 11/11/2007 4:45:55 PM >
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