Re: Laturslav (was: Hello! - introduction)

Hi!

Santiago Matías Feldman writes:
>...
> Yes, of course. My design goals for Laturslav are:
>
> -a very logical language (with approximately the same
> degree of logicalness as that of Turkish)
> -very analytical (agglutinative lgs tend to be so)
> -very regular (there's only one irregular verb -to be)
>...
Ah, I see.  Why is 'to be' irregular?  I mean, you may construct
anything, of course, but with a regular copula the language would be
even more, well, regular. :-)

>...
> >   http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s17/
>
> (Santiago Feldman):
>
> I've had a look at it and it seems that you have a
> very good knowledge of Latin. ...
*cough*  Well, much is from books I read specifically for this conlang.
Many people here have a for more founded knowledge than me, really.

>...
> I have one
> question about your conlang: Have you "made up" some traits out of
> the blue, without justifying them, or have you thought everything
> clearly so that every aspect of the lg is derived from an
> identifiable source?
>...
Nothing I did is without explanation -- I try to only phenomena that
either happened in North Germanic or Romance, or are very easily
explained.  Those that did not happen, i.e., those I made up, are
things for adjusting Latin to the proposed sound shifts.  It just does
not fit perfectly so since Latin is not Germanic, it is clear that
there must be some things that just did not happen this way.  Examples
are the f > T shift, the voiced plosive > voiced fricative shifts and
some vowel adjustments.  Mainly this all happens at the time my Romans
reach Scandinavia, i.e., during the start of Latin being used by
Scandinavian tongues.

Apart from that, not unfrequently consonant clusters that emerge
during shifting Latin did not occur in Germanic (or were very seldom
and behaved irregularly) and then I must decide what would be the most
probably way they behave regularly.

Otherwise, I try to stick to Icelandic language history.

Of course, the selection of the lexicon entries and of the parts of
grammar are often arbitrary since there is nothing this can be derived
from.  That's just the conlang part. :-)

> > Also, maybe you want to use your conlang in a Relay
> > game? ...
>
> It would be a pleasure to participate!!
> Count on me for that :)
>...
Accidentally, I just finished the sign-up page:

http://www.conlang.info/relay/relay14.html

The rules have not been discussed on the Relay list, so things might
change.  These are simply the rules for the previous relay.

**Henrik

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