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Re: [romanceconlang] North African Vulgar Latin



From: "Barry Garcia" <barry_garcia@hidden.email>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:21:46 -0700

romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com writes:
>So I'd get stuff like:
>
>QUATTRO > patro
>QUANDO  > pando
>QUALE   > pale
>QUINDECIM > findeche
>CINQUE  > chinfe
>AEQUALE > ebale
>AQUA    > aba
>LINGUA  > linba > limba or linda
>SANGUE  > sanve
>QUETARE > fedare
>QUI     > fi
>QUAERO  > fero
>ANTIGUA > antiba
>
>Some of these invoke voicing rules.  I like.  What say you guys?

Oooh, i like this a lot! It's very nice too. And if you choose "limba" it
would trick some who know into thinking it's related to Rumanian :) (of
course you could go with "linda". Would be a neat linguistic trick and
fool Spanish speakers into thinking you mean "beautiful")


Yeah, I think this is definitely what C-o is going to do. Yeah, I like the "linda" ambiguity. It could make for some nice poetic twists since linda *could* be the word for beautiful in C-o, too. Where does linda come from? Beautiful seems to come from a lot of different sources in Romance.

Adam

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