Re: Question about Romlangs/CeltiConlangs

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:31:58 +0100
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= <ijzeren_jan@...>
writes:
> Thank you guys for your answers. They are really helpful.
> By the way, can your languages be admired somewhere on the web? I
> managed to
> download complete grammars of Brithenig and Breathanach, but about
> Kerno and
> Judajca in particular I could find almost nothing.
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That's because there's almost nothing about Judajca on the web :-b ;
hopefully i'll get around to putting together some stuff (as well as
working on the language in the first place) sometime soon, first i'm
trying to finish the Rokbeigalmki website that i put off for like two
years.

Here's some random (hopefully final) information about Judajca:

It's primarily VSO, like pre-Modern Hebrew, with adjectives that follow
nouns.
It includes the ejective ("emphatic") consonants /s. t. k./, which come
from the VL combinations /ks kt kw/ and their voiced equivalents.
The plosives /b g d k p t/ have fricative allophones /B G z x P s/
The original /w/ split into /v f/
The original /s/ split into /Z S/
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".
10 different vowels are preserved, although they are changed based on the
Hebrew vowel system, leading to the development of 'segolates',
ultra-short vowels, and the fitting of Romance vocabulary into Semiticly
acceptable vowel and consonant patterns.
Shift of syllable-final /r/ and /l/ to /l/ and /w/ (which then either
merges with certain vowels or changes to /v/ or /f/)
Addition of Semitic (Hebrew and Aramaic) and Greek (Koine) vocabulary,
including the idiosyncratic introduction of Semitic phonemes into Romance
vocabulary.
Written primarily in the Hebrew alphabet.
Judajca is known as [ju:zajkO:] (it's native name, meaning "Judean") as
well as [ittalki:s] (it's Hebrew name, meaning "Italian").


-Stephen (Steg)
 "aru."

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