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From: "Geoff Horswood" <geoffhorswood@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: Franj Travellers' Phrasebook
> Having worked a bit more on Franj, my Turko-French conlang, here's the
> travellers' phrasebook stuff in that language.
>
> Some Franj notes:
>
> _j_ is /Z/ except word-initially, where it becomes /dZ/.
> _t_ is dentalised when in word-final position.
> _ll_ is palatized, often to the extent of becoming /j/.
> _x_ is always pronounced /S/.
>
> Most of the vocabulary is Old French derived, but there are several Greek
> borrowings (mostly technical terms), a good deal of Turkic (mostly Kazakh-
> derived- hey, you go with what you know, right?)
very true.
my speculation: perhaps a few French travelers in the Middle Ages(?)
settled down among a Kazakh community, and got along swimmingly.
(is there a Franj equivilent to that term about getting along well?).
*curious*
> I'm thinking of writing Franj with a modified Greek alphabet similar to
> Coptic. Watch this space...
>
> ---
>
> A TRAVELER'S PHRASEBOOK: FRANJ
> Section 1: Pleasantries
>
> Please -xi, -xu /-Si:/, /-Su:/
> (Note: There is no currently-used word for "Please" in Franj; the
> French "S'il vous plait" (in Franj: "seil vùs pleisint") fell out of use
in
> favour of the Turkic "-xi/-xu" ending.)
so its purely a suffix rather than an independant, right?
> Thank You Ràhemet ?r&'hE.mEt_d/
> Do you speak ...? Sàvez-vùs...? /s&v'e:z vy:s/ (formal)
> Sàvis-tù...? /s&v'i:s ty:/ (informal)
> English Inleix /&:~n.'lejS/
> French Fransaix /frO:~n.sajS/
> German Almand /al.mo:~nd'/
> Spanish Ispegneix /is.pEn.jejS'/
> Turkish Tùrùkeix /ty:.rYk.ejS'/
> Arabic Arabuq /a.rab'uq/
> Byzantine Greek Bizintiq /bi.z&:~n'tiq/
> Franj Franj /frO:~nZ/
would "Persian" be _Fars_? (with or without the horizontal line over the
A).
>
> I don't speak Franj very well.
> Jù nen sàvi yàxi Franj. /dZy: nE~n s&v'i: j&'Si: frO:~nZ/
nobody's perfect.
:)
> I am the walrus,
> Jù esti li ualrox,
is that written as a statement of fact, a joke, or a figure of speech?
*curious*
> As always, comments welcome,
I hope mine helped spark ideas.