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R: Swadesh List of Vulgar Latin?

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Saturday, September 9, 2000, 11:49
Chollie wrote:

> I'm under the impression that Jeffrey Henning's LangMaker comes with
a
> 3000-word Latin lexicon (but I've never used it). For my own attempts at > ConRomance, I found a Latin dictionary on the web (at > www.yourdictionary.com), cleaned it up, used Word to divide the text into > two columns (one being the word itself and the other being POS,
definition,
> examples of use, etc.) and then ran the first column through a sound
change
> applier. Afterwards I pasted in the second column and sorted the whole > thing; it was the rudiments of a nice dictionary but it still needs a lot
of
> work (hence my reticence about Afer recently).
Are long and short vowels marked? Jeffrey Henning's unfortunately does not mark them (many Romance sound changes are due to the old length system). Luca