Re: qis iscijat a linuva "afer?"

>    I am attempting to adapt the hypothetical vulgar latin base to the
>speech of "libyans" (whoever they were) and "africans" (Punic-speaking
North
>Africans).  While it is tempting to view the Libyan language as an ancestor
>or relative of today's Berber languages, several notable scholars have
>cautioned against making this leap.  Of course, what we don't know about
>Libyan could fill an ocean - there are, according to the (rather outdated)
>corpus, over 1,123 inscriptions in this language, untranslated and possibly
>untranslateable.
>    My specialty is Phoenician, so I'm trying to apply that as well.  Did
>you know that Sardinian preserves a few Phoenician words?  I'm not sure how
>many are preserved in the North African language, but by some accounts the
>word "mufti" is one of them.
    How about Maltese? One would think so.

>    As you can see, North Africa at the time of St. Augustine was very
>multicultural.  I'm trying to consider the influence of the Vandals on the
>language - perhaps my best option is to go back and attempt to make the
>vulgar substrate of Afer some sort of intersection of Sardinian and
>Mozarabic.  After all, the Vandals influenced these languages, too.  I
don't
>want to make this langauge too Germanic however>
    Probably not to worry.  It seems that the farther and faster the Germans
advanced, the less they influenced the language.  Really minimal in Spain.
Then too, it seems the Vandals were really just on a tear for the hell of
it, and had no intention of settling down.
(snip the rest of a very interesting post)

>Then Dan inquired:
>"What is Chollie short for?"
    I immediately thought of Chollie Knickerbocker, the old gossip colyumist
in NYC (still around??).  (Showing my age again ;-))