Re: Exercise in orthographic aesthetics

>From: yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...>
>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?
Let's see... definitely a Romance (or part-Romance) language, the 'eu'
diphthong is characteristic of Portuguese, as are the circumflexed vowels.
The ample use of 'z' also shows Iberian influence, possibly even from
Basque.  The 'ue' after consonants is a salient feature of Spanish, from
Latin 'o'.  But I see the word 'caror' -- could it be a Hindi loan (_k@ror_
'ten million')?  Could this be some sort of fictitious Goanese Indo-Romance
creole?  Konkani married to Portuguese perhaps?

I can possibly decipher 25 percent of the text, give or take.  You use the
word _acesto_, which I think means 'here'...  _Cue_ obviously means
'what'/'which', from Latin _que_ (but other Romance languages have [ke],
e.g. Italian _che_, Spanish/Portuguese/French _que_, have no idea what
Romanian, Catalan, Occitan or Rhaeto-Romansch has...)

Other than that, I'd have to really bear down and study.  And right now is
not that good of a time, because I got dinner ready.

Thanks for the challenge!

Danny
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