Re: Languages in fiction: The Triune Monarchy
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 22, 2003, 16:01 |
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--- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> > Vlox: Romany/Gypsy? (Given the contempt in which it was obviously held.)
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> The Vlox-speakers call themselves the Veloshchii, but the name must
> be connected with Vlach (unless we have another coincidence here).
> So we have a Romance language heavily overlaid with Slavic, or perhaps
> vice versa. In any case, it's not so much contempt as the fact that
> most Veloshchii are illiterate in their own language -- not the Princes
> of the Mud, to be sure.
I don't know any details, but AFAIK Valach/Vloch and similar expressions can
relate to anything Romance. In Polish, _w£oski_ means "Italian".
Jan
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