Re: R: Re: The Court poet in a Balcanic sounding romance conlang

Boudewijn wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Mangiat wrote:
>
> > Take a look at what I've just done.
> >
> > Tell me what you think!
> >
>
> Very, very convincing! You real should put up an mp3 of
> someone singing this ;-).
>
The problem is that I do not know *how* it sounds : )

John Cowan, in an offlist message, hinted me a page with a Romanian text. I
know almost nothing about its historical trivia. I know, OTOH, that it uses
agglutinated articles, the verb 'to want' as a future tense auxiliary verb
(an areal feature, found in Greek and Modern Bulgarian, AFAIK - btw, I use
it agglutinated as well) and some other cool constructions, besides the case
system.

So you'll have:

curmu = raven

curmul = the raven

and:

eu îmu = I love

eu amirolu = I will love < amîr volu = I want to love


Luca