Re: Star Trek

> > What else?
> Romulans and Vulcans, at least.
"Which *does* make sense because Romulans are Vulcan emigrants. They are the
same species."


I don't know how familiar any of you are with the expanded ST-Universe,
meaning the novels. Diane Duane wrote "The Romulan Way" among others in
which she describes the emigration of the Vulcans that were to become the
Romulans, or "Rihannsu" in their language.

According to Duane, Romulans speak what is essentially a conlang. They
constructed a language based upon Old High Vulcan and "aged" the language in
a different direction from Surak's contemporary colloquial language. It is
quite conceivable that the language will have developed further after
emigration. The development of Vulcan would no doubt have been faster
because of native development dynamics and the longer time of development.
The Romulan ships were generation ships without warp capability, so they
were travelling at relativistic speeds and while the voyage itself took
about 150 years ca. 800 years had passed on Vulcan.
Dan

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