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Re: qis iscijat a linuva "afer?"

From:Cathy Whitlock <cprincessw@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 19, 2000, 0:47
In a message dated 7/18/2000 8:29:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
leo_caesius@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

<< Afer, a hypothetical Romance language, is my first organized attempt at
 language construction ("costrutijo de linuvas") - as a tribute to my
 interest in the culture(s) of the Maghreb, I envisioned a language that
 would have developed among the Latin speaking inhabitants of North Africa,
 based upon colloquial varieties of Latin that did develop among that
 population ("*GASP*" - I can hear my detractors already - "another Neo-Latin
 conlang?!?!?"). >>

Never mind the detractors! Would this Latin-African mixture be similar to
mozárabe, a mixture of Spanish and Arabic that existed in southern Spain due
to the influence of the Moors who lived there from approx. 800-1498?