> >===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List
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> >In a message dated 1/11/2005 6:33:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >geoffhorswood@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> >>How much vocabulary are you drawing from Medieval or Church Latin?
Greek?
> >>Arabic?
> >I'm also assuming that if in my conhistory the Turks and Arabs couldn't
> >reconquer the Crusader states, they would not have been able to conquer
the
> >Byzantine Empire either.
my historical geography's a mite rusty...weren't there a lot more Turks
in/near Byzantium than there were in/near the Crusader states?
>> Therefore, there will be a Greek-speaking empire
> next door
> >to these Frankish-speakers, which might lead to more Greek influence than
I
> >initially planned on.
not neccessarily...the Byzantine Empire might undergo a third change (from
Latin-speaking to Greek-speaking to Turk/Arabic-speaking).
> >Doug
>