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Re: Jewish (was: constructed romance) languages

From:Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
Date:Friday, January 22, 1999, 4:25
Steg Belsky wrote:
> > LISHANA-DENI: Israel > > LISHANAN: Israel > > LISHANID NOSHAN: Israel > > I just think all these "lishan..." language names sound very cool :) .
What do they mean? Something related to loshn (language)?
> > SHUADIT: France > > My "history of Hebrew" book says that Chuadit ( << Yehudit, "Jewish") has > some very unusual sound shifts, such as /s/ >> /f/, as in _sus_ (horse) > /fuf/, and the /j/ >> /S/ change found in the name of the language > itself.
I think I read that even some /t/s became /f/. Freaky :)
> > YEVANIC: Israel > > Judeo-Greek? (Yavan = Greece)
No, it's probably the language spoken by Jews who live on Yavin :) You didn't know about the Jewish contribution to the Rebellion, did you? :)