Re: Slezan

En réponse à Joe :


>>Quite! CL is something of a conlang (as it was
>>not a spoken language, but a sort of upper crusty
>>concensus on What Proper Lanuguage Ought To Be),
>>it does borrow a goodly bit from Greek. Even
>>nominal case endings.
>>
>
>I think it was probably a spoken language.  Before it was really written
>much, though.
Nope. There has never been a Latin dialect even close to CL (at least, not 
one closer than others). Even at the time of the kingdom or of the 
republic, spoken Latin was quite different. CL is in many ways a very 
artificial contruction, made by Romans to give Latin a status of literary 
language, on par with Greek. Of course it was spoken, but that was as a 
consequence of being read (and because it was indeed a consensus on how 
Proper Language Ought to Be, so high figures like Senators had to speak CL, 
at least in their official speechs - at home, they probably spoke a Vulgar 
Latin like everyone else -).

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.