Re: is there a Latin-Chinese conlang?

Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:01:14 +0200, Rodlox <Rodlox@...> wrote:
>
>> out of curiosity, has anyone ever created a Latin-Chinese conlang?
>
> No. Because of the large geographical distance it would be highly
> improbable... but don't let that stop you.
Latin != Roman.

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, wouldn't be too much of a stretch at all.

(And no, I havnt made a Latin-Chinese conlang.  The closest I have is
http://wiki.frath.net/Latin_Pinyin  ... a rough system for transcribing
Chinese into roughly Classical Latin spelling.)

	*Muke!
[1] _Historiarum Indicarum_, 1589.
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