Have you considered Maltese as an interesting parallel situation?
Krista
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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?
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>A tough question I haven't fully addressed.
>
>I didn't plan on anything from Latin apart from what was already in Old
>French. Perhaps I just don't know the situation well enough.
>
>I'm assuming the Greek and Arabic components will be largely limited to words
>for the flora, fauna, and cultural phenomena of the eastern Mediterranean
>area. I wasn't aiming for any kind of mixed language; I hadn't considered
doing
>a con-Romance language before, and I looked for a place I could isolate some
>Romance speakers.
>
>My impression, which may be wrong, is that the local population in Outremer
>mostly spoke Greek or Arabic rather than Turkish, so Turkish would be a
distant
>third on the list of foreign influences.
>
>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. 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.
>
>Doug