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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:52:36 +0100 (MET) Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@hidden.email> writes:
> - I'm wondering about the historical plausibility of it. The fact is
> that I
> don't know anithing about the history of Arabic. Where does it come
> from? What
> did it look like 2000 years ago? Is it plausible to have Roman
> settling in an
> Arabic-speaking place of 2000 years ago?
-
As far as i know, Arabic was only spoken in the Arabian peninsula until
the Islamic expansion.
> If someone could answer all those questions, it would be really kind
> of them, as
> it would help me a lot on devising this Arabo-Romance conlang. The
> idea is
> seducing: imagine a Romance lang, with lots of back consonnants,
> emphatic
> consonnants, keeping distinction between long and short vowels (like
> Arabic), a
> prefixed article (maybe derived from ille -> il very plausible since
> present
> Arabic al-), some features of Arabic like nominal sentences, a
> conjugated
> negation, all that written in Arabic script. I even like the idea of
> the
> diglossia that most Arabic speakers have to deal with, between
> Litteral Arabic
> and their dialect. Unfortunately, I have no idea of the plausibility
> of such a
> thing, so I really need your help and insight on that. Thank you in
> advance!
> Christophe.
-
Sorry, that was the only question i could answer at all, but the idea
sounds great.... and maybe, if Jûdajca can't fit into Ill Bethisad, it
and your Arabo-Romance could fit in an alternate world together! At
least now i know that my idea of _hujus_ > _hu(j)-_ (cf. Hebrew _ha-_)
for a prefixed article isn't completely implausible! :-)
-Stephen (Steg)
"Word making is world making."
~ _The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis_
by Avivah Zornberg
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