Re: yet another romance conlang

At 19:58 +1300 8.1.2000, andrew wrote:
>
>> Why not Latin/Pixie? ;)
>I checked.  The only mention of language I could find in Nancy
>Arrowsmith's A Field Guide to the Little People was that the People of
>Peace in Scotland speak Old Gaelic among themselves.  Faeries tend to be
>very conservative in lifestyle and in language.  I suppose intermarriage
>between Folleti and Sidhe can't be ruled out.  (I won't call it
>interbreeding, you can't be entirely sure who's reading this:)
IIRC it is hinted in the Irish sources that at least some of the Otherworld
peoples speak non-Gael languages.


I'm quite sure the "huldufólk" in Iceland are of mixed Irish/Norse descent
just as their human countrypeople.  Maybe their *Language* is mixed too.

I long ago decided that the Little People of Sweden speak their own
descendant of Common Scandinavian, but I never worked it out in any detail.


/BP

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