Re: constructed romance languages

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:32:45 -0500 Carlos Thompson
<chlewey@...> writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> On the bus home today i was thinking about this, and i got my own
>> conromancelang idea, which i probably will never get around to
>> (especially since i know nothing about Latin) - a Judean
>>romancelang,
>> influenced by Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and/or Arabic.  That would be
>>one heck of an alternate history conEarth, too.
>Well.  I think you can begin finding information on Sefardi(sp?) or
>Ladino.
>Another idea (taken from a subject in soc.history.what-if I didn't
>read), a
>conEarth when Constantino had supported and being supported by Jewes
>instead of
>Christians, or, at least, a big part of the Roman Empire had become
>Jewish.
>   Chlewey Thompin                              ## ####
Well, what i was thinking of was more of a direct-from-Latin language in
a Semitic environment.  Ladino/Dzhudesmo broke off of Spanish a while
after Spanish broke off from Latin.  My Yiddish book has a picture of an
example of Dzhudesmo on one page where it's talking about the history of
Judaic languages.  I was very surprised one day during Yiddish class when
i was flipping through my book and started reading what was almost
exactly like the Spanish i was learning just the period before! :)

Talking about Constantine and the Jews, I heard somewhere that at the
time around the Year 0, about 10% of the Roman Empire was Jewish, and
another 10% was relatives of intermarried Jews, Shomronim (Samaritans),
"semi-converts", and neighboring provinces allied with Judea.  I remember
turning to my brother and saying something like, "we coulda conquered the
world!"
Now *that* would be an interesting historical what-if.  :) ....maybe it
could fit in with the Judeo-Latin conlang idea, too....

It's so aggravating having all these ideas and not being able to do
anything with them because i don't know Latin! hrmph!  How did all of you
with conromance languages get started?  Did you already know some Latin?


-Stephen (Steg)

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