Re: yet another romance conlang

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:17:13 -0000 Fabian <rhialto@...> writes:
> I suspect this conculture would have fought on teh side of the
> Crusaders in
> the 11-13th centuries?
.

The Crusaders?  The Crusaders were trying to steal their land!
Although i have to figure out, timeline-wise, when Judea was independant
and when exactly it wasn't....all the different empires coming and going.

> Concerning your written system:
> I don't see how having a boustrephedon mixed Latin/Hebrew script
> would be
> practical;. The code-switching required would be phenomenal,
> especially if
> it occured mid-sentence. I can see separate groups using one or the
> other,
> and I can imagine a third using Hebrew consonants and Latin vowels
> (perhaps
> after having eschewed the vowel diacritics for too many
> generations), but both mixed in full seems odd.
.

I don't know about that....once i get up enough vocabulary and
conjugations and stuff set, i'll try writing out an extended passage and
see how it turns out.  If the codeswitching is too impractical, i'll
probably end up relegating the boustrophedon style to poetry, signs, etc.

> Also, since this conculture is very split, we have to have the
> Judaean
> Peoples Liberation Front :)
.

Heh...first translation excercise:  "Romans go home!"  :-)

> Would any of the groups use greek script?
.

I can see people using that in the beginning, but eventually dying out as
Greek/Byzantine influence wanes, leaving the main cultures just Judean
and Roman.
Maybe i'll make that orthography too....you can never have too many
scripts for one language!  :-)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "survival is insufficient."


> ---
> Fabian
> Ikun li dik il-kitba tpatti it-tieba ta' qalb ta' patruni tieghi.
> Ikun li ttaffi ugigh tal-Mitlufin u tal-Indannati.
> Ikun li ilkoll li jaqraw il-kitba, qalbhom ihobbu is-Sewwa u l-Unur.
> U b'dak l'ghamil, nithallas tax-xoghol iebes.