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.