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Re: constructed romance languages

From:Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
Date:Thursday, January 21, 1999, 2:50
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.
I have also thought about doing a "Jewish" Romance conlang, but unfortunately for me, I know next to nothing about Hebrew and other Semitic languages. You probably already know this, but I will tell it for the benefit of the list. There actually are some Romance dialects/languages spoken by Jews with Hebrew roots, such as Ladino, which as I understand it is derived from Medieval Spanish and was later carried to the Middle East and perhaps some other areas, after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. So you're saying your conlang would develop in Judea? That's a very interesting idea.