Re: Proto-Romance

--- Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> 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?
> >
> > 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.
>
No.  C-a derives from Vulgar Latin with a Punic
substrate and an Arabic adstrate.  There is also heavy
borrowing from Byzantine Greek and some from Sicilian,
Florentine, Venetian, Provencial, Catalan and Norman.
Modern words are often borrowed from "international"
English eg. sanduichi < sandwich or televisiuni <
television or T-xati < T-shirt.

Adam

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