Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Judean Romancelang Plans

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, January 22, 1999, 17:50
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:02:44 -0500 Don Blaheta <dpb@...> writes:
>> >Well, "of the Jews" was "Iudaeorum", so "Iudaeus/Iudaea" (Jew, >Judean) >> >would be what you're looking for.
>> How is Iudaea pronounced? /judaea/ ? /judaEa/ ? Are any of the >vowels >> long? Is the normal Latin suffix for language/nationality/etc. >_-a_?
>The first part is pretty definitely /jud/. The diphthong "ae" I'm not >positive about; in my Latin class we said /aj/, but I'd imagine it was >originally as written: /ae/.
>Also, I think I was misleading in the way I gave a translation: >"Iudaeus" and "Iudaea" both mean "Jew" or "Judean"; the former is >masculine, the latter feminine.
So "language" is feminine in Latin? According to my dictionary, English "language" comes from Latin _lingua_. But is that /liNgua/ or /liNgwa/ ? /liNgua/ would probably become /lINgu?a/ /liNgwa/ would probably become /lINgva/
>> I remember someone saying that the Latin plural ending was _-i:_, so >(if >> that's correct) in Judean it'd be _-i:n_, because of the Aramaic >> influence.
>Ack. Really, I think you need to learn a bit more Latin if you're >going >to do a romancelang. ;) -i: was one of _very many_ plural endings; >specifically, it was the masculine, second declension, nominative >plural >ending. Here's as much as I remember of the paradigms for first (fem) >and second (masc/neut) declensions, the most common ones: > > 1s 1p 2s 2p >nom -a -ae -us/um -i/a >gen -ae -arum -i -orum >dat -ae -is -o -is >acc -am -as -um -os >abl -a -is -o -is > >The point is, there are a _lot_ of endings you'll have to deal >with---and this is just the first two declensions; there are three >more. >:) And that's to say nothing of the conjugations... 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...
>-=-Don >Blaheta-=-=-dpb@cs.brown.edu-=-=-<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/>-=-
___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]