Re: An arabo-romance conlang?

En réponse à kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET:

> I was looking for Maltese material on the web but have only found a
> few snippits so far. However, it appears that Maltese developed a
> special class of verbs for Romance loans that wouldn't fit into any
> of the Arabic patterns. If this is true it might provide some
> suggestions for arabised Romance.
>
Well, my point is not to fit Romance verbs to Arabic patterns, rather to make
them so different from usual Romance patterns that they will look vaguely
Arabic (for instance by losing the infinitive, lose conjugation tenses and
frankly change conjugations).

> Another point is that Sicily had a large Arabic speaking population
> at one time, has it left it's mark on the local Romance? Would it be
> a suitable place for an Arabo-Romance to have developed in another
> time-line?
>
Well, unfortunately it doesn't fit in my timeline (i.e. it is already too much
Romance for me :) . From the material I have, I'm obliged to begin with 1st
century Latin :) ).

Christophe.

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