Re: Question about Romlangs/CeltiConlangs
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 20, 2002, 10:51 |
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--- Steg Belsky wrote:
> Here's some random (hopefully final) information about Judajca:
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> It's primarily VSO, like pre-Modern Hebrew, with adjectives that follow
> nouns.
Aha, my all-time favourite! VSO really feels nice, eh? It used it in Hattic,
too, and I don't regret that at all!
> The basic forms of nouns come from the genetive case; construct forms
> come from the nominative case, with Semitic interference. This developed
> from a re-analyzation of nominative-genetive serieses from "something
> of-whatever" to "something-of whatever".
That's interesting. I'm not aware of the Latin genitive surviving in any other
Romance language.
> Addition of Semitic (Hebrew and Aramaic) and Greek (Koine) vocabulary,
> including the idiosyncratic introduction of Semitic phonemes into Romance
> vocabulary.
Are there Arabs/Palestinians as well in your setting? And if so, how far
reaches their influence?
> Judajca is known as [ju:zajkO:] (it's native name, meaning "Judean") as
> well as [ittalki:s] (it's Hebrew name, meaning "Italian").
"Italkit" is the normal Hebrew name for "Italian?" How do Hebrew-speakers
distinguish between Italian and Judajca?
Thank you! Meanwhile, I'm patiently but eagerly waiting for more...
Jan
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