Re: yet another romance conlang

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:

>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.
>
Indeed I recall reading that the word _planxty_ (or planchstigh) is a
word for a particular sort of dance practiced amongst the Gentry which
was later exported from that Country by O Carolan and made popular by
himself in Ireland while the word was borrowed into Irish (Gaelic and
Bearla).

Padraic.

>/BP