Re: Exercise in orthographic aesthetics

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Acesto es lo missát prezeu ên carashán, cue mezai ali mei caror beis lê
>percei "Conlang". Carashán se vueni de arezui, lo dinyát cue ve conyetes
>sê lui Aredos. Demát ve azisero cue acesto deluojer. Otoi teano, eu vuelo
>cue ve conyettues ên cuo dinyát se-dinyát-zi decca. Se jon conyete,
>creva-me!
>
>There we go, a text in a hitherto unrevealed language, Carashán. No, you
>can't have a translation yet- I want you to be kind and do me a favour.
>What language do you think this resembles? Can you puzzle it out?
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Dan
It reminds me of Italian, with a little influence from maybe greece (my
knowledge of modern greek is very very limited). It seems like it would be
found more in eastern europe than west, perhaps somewhere near italy, but
yet not. Odd but pretty!

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