Re: Proto-Romance
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 20, 2004, 5:12 |
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:14:38 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
wrote:
> 1. What is the name of the closest common ancestor of the Romance
> languages? Romance? Proto-Romance? Late Vulgar Latin?
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> 2. Where can I find out what has been reconstructed about this
> language? Vocabulary, synatx, you know, the kind of things I'd need
> to know if, say, I wanted to create a Romance conlang.
> Which I'm considering as as a stepping stone on the way to my
> desired P-I-E conlang, the right way of creating which has so
> far eluded me.
There's a romconlang group on Yahoo! Groups. They'll have your answers.
I suspect the "normal" starting point is Vulgar Latin, but there's no
reason you couldn't start from Classical, or even Proto-Latin-Falliscan. I
don't think I know of a Proto-LF-derived Conlang, it might be an
interesting project.
Odd thought: Does Carrajena go that far back? I feel that it doesn't, but
I also sort of feel that it might.
Paul
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