Re: Austronesian style Latin...
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 7, 2007, 15:18 |
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On 7.5.2007 Barry Garcia wrote:
>>
>> We're completing the puzzle more and more. Which
>> language family does not yet have a Romance conlang?
>> :-)
>
> I can think of a few:
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> Dravidian Japanese Korean Basque Turkic
>
> Maybe there are romlangs of the above? :)
Basque already is an Aquitano-Vulgolatin Mischsprache.
There is nothing you could possibly add to increase
that impression, as there are zillions of more or less
phonologically warped Latin/Romance loanwords acquired
through two millennia. Sometimes reality precipitates
conlangers' imagination! The fact that Basque syntax
as opposed to morphology is accusative and not ergative
is possibly due to Lat./Rom. influence as well.
I can think of some other language families that may
filter Latin interestingly, like Bantu or Algonquinian
or Australian! Can anyone figure out how a three-way
dental-alveolar-retroflex split may come about in Latin?
Perhaps I should get back to my Perso-Romance lang...
I also still have the Germanic language where *kuningaz
actually would become knjaz, but that wouldn't be a
Romlang of course!
/Bendetx
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