Re: The lost romance tongue

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, yl-ruil wrote:

>After recently poking aroun the local library, I've come up with a
>reference to a romance language I've never heard of (and I thought
>I'd heard of all of them- from Italian to Jerriais): Dalmatian. It is
>extinct and as far as I know it was spoken in Dalmatia- I think
>that's somewhere in the Balkans. Does anyone know anything about it?
>It's related most closely to Romanian- I think.
Well, don't keep us in suspense - was this a reference in passing or
does your library have a book about Dalmatian? One of my books on
Romance languages mentions it, but says little about it.

Some one of our number (though I don't know if he is still on list or
ever was) was working on Neo-Dalmatian, though it's been a couple of
years since the page was updated. And very few of the links work.

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>By the way, by Vasiliy Chernov's standards I'm extremely ill-bred
>(this is actually true). My real name is Dan Morrison (yl-ruil means
>something like "king" in Corfeg, one of my conlangs. Arrogant, huh?)
>and I live on the south coast of England. I am a student of German,
>French and Italian. I've been a solitary conlanger since boyhood. I'm
>primarily interested in indo-european languages, and have created a
>sub-family in the indo-european group, adding another classical
>language- Aredos- to the three (or so) we already have.
Does it reside in Europe or Asia (as at least two of them do) or
elsewhere?

Padraic.

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>Dan (yl-ruil)
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