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Re: New World Romance Nouns, Adjectives, and Numerals



--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, draqonfayir@j... wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:20:00 -0000 "habarakhe4
> <theophilus88@h...>" <theophilus88@h...> writes:
> > NWR (New World Romance):
> -
>  
> <snipped much interesting information about NWR>
> 
> Wow, this is a very cool-looking language!  I can't remember you
> mentioning it before, though... or is this a New World development 
of
> Fortunatian?
> If not, what kind of background does it have to be 'New World' 
Romance? 
> or do you mean something other than the Americas by the term "New 
World"?
Most of the  cultural information was hashed out in CONCULTURE, not 
here. New World Romance is the language spoken in the 13th century 
AD *there* by the descendants and followers of a group of Roman 
prisoners on their way to the Fortunate Isles (but not Fortunatian 
speakers themselves) who mutinied and drifted over to Brazil.
As for the layout, I took the reference work _The World's 
Languages_, photocopied the entry on Guarani, and substituted my own 
Latin-derived forms (with a few modifications, of course) - it was a 
lot easier than my efforts to create de novo languages. The use of 
Guarani phonology for NWR enabled me to use the same 
phonetic/phonemic rules as Guarani. I called it NWR because the 
cultural sphere stretches 800 miles up the Amazon River *there*, and 
complete linguistic cohesion over such a large area seemed absurd.

BTW, I borrowed your kw>q idea for another project and made the 
Semitic-sounding qaiba 'mountain' from the unSemitic-sounding 
Hawaiian kahahiwa
> 
> 
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "elf booty got soul!  elf girls like to rock'n'roll!"
They do? I thought elves didn't have souls, being the spawn of 
Lilith and the Devil. ;)

>      ~ 'lords of the rhymes'
>