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Hi!
I just joined the list - i'm already on Conlang, Conculture, Ideolengua,
and Nacon.
My Romance conlang is _hulLinqa hujJûdajca_, "the Judean language".
(circumflex = macron)
It's spoken in an alternate universe (possibly Ill Bethisad?) where the
Roman Empire flooded Judea with imperial colonists in order to suppress
revolts. Unfortunately for the Romans, the colonists predominantly
assimilated into the Judean populace, although they did replace Hebrew,
Aramaic, and Koine Greek with a new vernacular - Jûdajca.
Phonology of Jûdajca:
simple stops: / p t k b d g /
fricative allophones of the above: [ P s x B z G ]
independent fricatives: / f v S Z h /
approximants: / j l /
flap: / r /
emphatics: / s. t. k. /
(still haven't decided if the emphatics are pharyngealized or
glottalized)
nasals: / m n /
vowels: / a A E e i ij o ow u uw /
/A/ is commonly rounded, and sometimes sounds like [O].
Nouns in Jûdajca [juw'zajka] have two forms: normal and construct.
The normal form (for instance, LINQA ['liNk.a]) derives from the VL/PR
genetive (in this case, LINGUAE).
The construct form (LINQ [liNk.]) derives from the nominative (LINGUA)
Plurals ~ normal: LINQÂRU [liN'k.Aru] (from LINGUÂRUM); construct:
LINQAJ ['liNk.aj] (from LINGUAE)
So for instance, another way to say _hullinqa hujjûdajca_ is _linq
Jhûdâ_, "(the) language of Judea".
Jûdajca preserves the passive conjugations.
So far, the last time i worked on it, i came up with the present tense
active and passive -ÂL paradigms:
accent marks are just for here, not written in the orthography.
AMÂL (to love) ~ amâr (to be loved) (stresses on the â)
ámô ~ ámo
ámâ ~ amâri (stress on the â)
áma ~ amátu
amâmû ~ amâmu (stresses on the â)
amâti ~ amâmîn (stresses on the last long vowel)
áman ~ amánt
Unfortunately, i don't have the pronouns yet, although "i" will probably
be _eg_ [EG].
My Latin dictionary that i got has 3rd person pronouns for he she and it
- did those cease to be used in Vulgar Latin / Proto-Romance?
In word-final or pre-geminate positions, /o/ and /u/ sound like [O] and
[U] respectively.
Jûdajca can be written in the Latin or Hebrew alphabets, and
boustrophedon style (with lines of alternating direction/alphabet) is
very popular.
In the literary Hebrew of Jûdajca's universe, Jûdajca is called
_Italkit_, after Italy.
Jûdajca has many loanwords from Hebrew (such as _fîlû_ ['fijluw] "even
(if)"), Greek (such as _prascev_ [p@raS'kEv] "preparation"*), and
Aramaic.(such as _mar_ [mar] "mister").
*the Greek loan _prascev_ takes an Aramaic plural ending [ej], to become
_prascevej_ [p@raSkE'vej].
To see a short example of Jûdajcan writing, check out
http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~bh11744/judajca/judajca.gif
-Stephen (Steg)
"You talk to me in that soldier-speak again and you won't have a mouth
to talk with!"
~ anonymous Judean zealot in the early days of Jûdajca
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