Dacán -- a new romance lang.
From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
Date: | Friday, December 1, 2000, 1:01 |
I am introducing in this post a new Romance language, called Dacán
/DatS'a"n/ that I was inspired to do after reading several of the posts
that are going these days on the list. The only thing that I can say firmly
about it's history
is that it is spoken somewhere near where modern Romanian is spoken,
though perhaps a bit more to the east.
It is very Slavic influenced (not only in phonology, but also in
vocabulary).
I am going to start off a little oddly since I haven't worked out all the
kinks in
the phonological systems. I present here the number system as it stands. I'm
hoping any one out there with knowledge of the Slavic Number System (if that
indeed is a term), can help me out with them. General comments are also very
much welcome.
unz una /wU:nz/ /wU:n@/
dou due /dOU/ /dU:E/
tris trá /tr'Is/ /tr'{/
padur /padU"r/
cimbe /tS'ImbE/
sis /S'Is/
sidi /S'Id'/
udi /wU:d'/
novi /nO:v'/
dici /d'ItS'/
undici /wUnd'I"tS'/
dodici /dOd'I"tS'/
tridici /tr'Id'I"tS'/
paddici /p@d'I"tS'/ (with haplology from padurdici)
pindici /p'Ind'I"tS'/
sidici /S'Id'I"tS'/
dici i sidi /d'ItSIS'I"d'/
dici i udi /d'ItSIwU:d'/ dodivinti /dOd'Iv'I"nt'/
dici i novi /d'ItSInO:v'/ undivinti /wUnd'Iv'I"nt'/
vinti /v'Int'/
The alternates, dodivinti and undivinti are reserved for more formal
affairs, and have no place in the modern spoken language. (I was wondering,
could
these be used in a sort of church language?
Finally, the /w/ in the beginning of words that begin with /U/ is really
a labial
on-glide, much like the /'/ in front of /I/. I'm not sure how to write this.
And once again, any and all comments are welcome!
Ellliott