Re: Slovanik, my new romlang
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 30, 2002, 14:07 |
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 10:03:22 +0100
=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= <ijzeren_jan@...>
writes:
> The name of the language?
> First, I thought about calling it "Slavonik", but after "Slovanik"
> seemed to
> sound better in my ears. Still I believe that both names are a bit
> dull. Right
> now, I am considering to call it either after some Slavonic tribe or
> after the region where it would be spoken. Any thoughts?
-
Well, if it's a Romance language spoken in an area or environment in
which its Romanceness distinguishes it from the other languages around
it, you could just take a form of the word "Latin", "Romance" or "Roman",
the way Ladino and Romanian do. Conhistorically, until it was accepted
and adopted as their national vernacular by the majority of the Judean
population, Judajca was known by its Hebrew name _Italcit_ "Italian" -
and by less polite names ;-) .
-Stephen (Steg), brother of the Left-Handed Lithuanian
"Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos."
(with a dot over the E in |dave|)