Re: The lost romance tongue

>From: yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Dan (yl-ruil)
You're about right on Dalmatian. It died out in the 1890s I think. There's a
Neo-Dalmatian revival somewhere on the Web. I don't know how close it is the
real thing. Dalmatian was supposedly half-way between Italian and Romanian.
I started a faux-romance lang based on what I could find about Proto-Romance
of the area, Dalmatian, various forms of Romanian. (In fact, developing it
some more is my plan for this evening, as soon as I get Hall's Proto-Romance
Morphology).  Check out "Origin of the Romanians" by I-forget-who.

Anything webified, yl-ruil? I'd be interested to see another classical
language? Have you invented the high culture to justify the classical?



Jennifer

___________________________________________________________
There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of
them is without significance. - I Cor. 14:10

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com