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Re: Rumáno and Còssera

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, July 20, 2000, 4:11
Dan Jones wrote:

>Rumáno is a largely forgotten language (i.e. my new conlang project), >derived from Vulgar Latin and spoken on the Mediterranean island of
Còssera.
>Còssera is between Tunisia and Sicily, about the same size (slightly
bigger)
>than Gozo, the second Maltese island. Here's a quick con-history:>
Many chuckles.......
>Here is a short example of Rumáno, the Short Obligatory Prayer of the >Baha'is: > >Yo faciu testor, o mio dio, que tu mi as faito per adòrarte e conhederte.
Yo
>faciu ora testor ala mia imbicilhedà e la tua podra, ala mia pobridà e la >tua diudà. No es alho dio que tu, el oshilho delo perilho. > >I bear witness, o my god, that you made me to worship and know you. I bear >witness now to my powerlessness and your might, to my poverty and your >wealth. There is no other god than you, the help in peril.>
Strikes me as awfully "good" Romance for a people who've had so many visitors, even if only briefly. Perhaps those furrin influences didn't penetrate the religious language? Nice, nevertheless, and I like the spelling.