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romanceconlang@hidden.email writes: >Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:26:19 -0000 > From: "Zebuleon " <zebuleon@hidden.email> >Subject: sources > >I have been considering doing a romance lang as well and I was >wondering what are the primary sources your using, ie. Latin, French, >Romanian, etc. Which langs are you using as a proto-lang. On a >similar note which dictionaries or other vocab sources are you using. > >Mario My sources are often Vulgar Latin words (whenever I can get word lists), but i generally look at Portuguese and Spanish for words (following the sound change charts I copied), and try to construct words that way (it's pretty reliable), such as where Spanish has "hembra" (from femina), Montreiano has feñna (/feNna/). Most of the words I got were from "A History of The Spanish Language" by Ralph Penny (IIRC), and "From Latin to Romance in Sound Charts", so i could have a sensible set of changes (i based it off of the changes listed in it, and then went my own direction to develop Montreiano). I havent spent time on the protolang. I wanted a modern language (I really dont have time to do a proto-lang, and then derive the modern lang). Anyway, hi, i signed up the other day. Small list, but a nice one.