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Re: Slovanik, Enamyn, and Slavic slaves

From:bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>
Date:Friday, August 2, 2002, 18:31
 --- JS Bangs <jaspax@...> wrote: > Peter
Clark sikyal:
> > > On Friday 02 August 2002 02:18, Jan van > Steenbergen wrote: > > > It is particularly difficult to distinguish here > between languages and > > > dialects. For some reason all versions of Greek, > both ancient and modern, > > > have always been known simply as "Greek". The > only two possible sister > > > languages I can think of are Tsakonian and > Pontic Greek. > > > A possible reason could be that the Greek > language has almost completely > > > been wiped off the globe except for Greece. A > pity, because Koine could > > > have been the ancestor language of a lot of > offshoots in the same way > > > Vulgar Latin generated the Romance languages. > > > It's a pity that Ray is not around; he could > have told us a lot of > > > interesting stuff on the subject. > > Maybe one of these days I'll try a > language based on Greek. If Latin -> > > Romance, would Greek -> Hellenic? Or is there > another term that would be > > better suited for describing such a language? > > I have actually attempted this, but I never quite > got far enough to do > anything with it. In fact, I considered > incorporating this language into > Ill Bethisaid, but, again, never quite made it. The > idea was basically to > apply Spanish sound-change rules (properly tweaked > to deal with Greek, > rather than Latin, starting vocab) to Koine Greek > and see what comes out. > I don't know if I actually intended an Iberian > substratum, but in practice > I could do this anywhere. > > Here's a basic idea of what it could look like: > > En t'arjé hie to logo, ce to logo hie pro to Cios, > ce Cios hie to logo. > Udo hie en t'arjé pro to Cios. Pantes eyenedo di > odo, ce juere odo udene > eyenedo. > > Pronounce as Castillian Spanish. This is just a > first pass, of course--in > a full-blown Hellenic lang, I'd mess with vocab and > grammar much more than > this. (And who can tell me what this passage is?
go on, please tell me how you deal with |kaì ho lógos sàrx egéneto|, i love that phrase ! ( mainly because |sárx| is a lovely sounding word and i like the cluster in /<M>sar_0ks/ (/sarks/) before the open syllables of /<L>E.<H>gE.<F>nE.<M>tO/ (/EgEnEtO/). bn __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com