Re: is there a Latin-Chinese conlang?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Muke Tever" <hotblack@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:49 AM
Subject: Re: is there a Latin-Chinese conlang?


> Latin was still being used around the time contact with Japan became
> common--I know at least Ioannes Petrus Maffeius was writing about Japan
> (and inflecting Japanese words as Latin, albeit spelling them funny) in
> the sixteenth century[1]--Chinese, which was already known to the
> ancient Romans,
 I'd heard about sporadic/vague trade contacts between the Romans and
India...but naught more than that.  thanks.