Re: Judean Romancelang Plans

Steg Belsky wrote:
> So "language" is feminine in Latin?  According to my dictionary, English
> "language" comes from Latin _lingua_.  But is that /liNgua/ or /liNgwa/ ?
Presumably /liNgwa/, although possibly earlier /liNgua/. In the
Western Romance languages at least the gu comes out as /gw/, although
French dropped the /w/.

[...]
> >Look, go out to
> >a
> >used bookstore and find yourself a good Latin grammar.  It's pretty
> >cool---rather regular for a natural language---and books are always
> >good
> >investments, no? ;)
>
> Great....i guess i really should have waited a while before starting this
> insane project :)  Bookstore, here i come...
Allen and Greenbough's Latin Grammar is available online now, at
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=ag+gram.+toc
It's a bit hard to follow in web form though.