Re: Slovanik, my new romlang

 --- Thomas Leigh wrote:

> Dag, Jan! Hoe gaat het?
Uitstekend, dank je!

> > The result are some ideas about a Romance conlang with Slavic
> > substratum,
>
> At first my brain said "...Like Romanian?" ;-)
>
> But then I realised there was a key difference: Romanian is a Romance
> language which has absorbed lots of Slavic loanwords, whereas Slovanik is a
> Romance language over a Slavic substrate. The results could be quite
> different!
Exactly! It will look very different, more like Polish or Czech.

> Afraid I can't help you there. Are there any, say, medieval Latin sources
> which give Latin names for any Slavic tribes? Perhaps you could adapt one of
> those.
Not that I'm aware of. I'll have to dig in my books about at bit, I think.

> > Orthography?
>
> Polish orthography is much more conservative; Old Czech orthography was
> quite similar. The modern Czech orthography with the haceks and all, later
> adopted by Slovak, Croatian and other languages, was due to the reforms
> of... oh, heck, my memory's lousy. Either Jan Hus or Jan Amos Komensky
> (known as Comenius in Latin). One of the two, I forget which. In any case,
> the "common Slavic" orthography you refer to is a later invention; older
> Czech (and presumably other Slavic langs too) orthography was very much like
> Polish.
Well, it's merely a matter of taste, I guess. Polish is much closer to me, at
least. But Czech, Croat etc. have at least the advantage that they look more
"Slavic" to the outsider.

> I have to run off to work now so I don't have time to comment on your Grand
> Master PlanT, but keep posting! It's quite interesting so far!
Thank you, I will.

Jan

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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