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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4" <theophilus88@h...> wrote: > --- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen > <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote: > > --- habarakhe4 skrzypszy: > > > > > fa&sal na&sal, rii ia in gialii, [...] > > > &ansivigaasul su'un naman, > > > anias su'un langnu. > > > vias su'un alansa > > > us in sala us in gialii. > > > tuanaa ati'ia napii fana na&sal guasiti'aana atra > > > ap&alisa nua slakla&&iuania > > > us nua ap&alimu slakla&&iuania aliualun. > > > na tuugiasa nua in sansaasiauna atra > > > &aliasa nua ia malii. > > > > Interesting. What kind of language is this? A Romance-Inuit > combination of some > > sort? (in that case, I think you necessarily ought to introduce > some q's...) > > > > Jan > > > Innu-Romance (which needs to be renamed, since Innu is an Algokian > language unrelated to Inuit) is Latin developed into an Inuit > phonological mold. No contact with the Inuit is required. The lack > of /q/ is the pressing issue. There is the development gw > G > q, > but the only Latin words I can come up with that fit the parameters > are liiqa < liiGa < lingua, aaqi < aaGi < anguis, and uuqan < uuGan < > unguen. > > If I put Liiqa Laasiina in the FI universe (which would explain what > a Roman galley is doing off the West African coast), I could infuse > it with some Berber (for which I already have notes and sources) and > set it up in Cap Verde Islands (too meager in resources?) or Fernando > Póo (not too far for a Phoenician galley). This would produce the > opposite of Maltese ? instead of a Christian population speaking > Arabic, Liiqa Laasiina would be a Muslim population speaking a > Romance language. > > If I do not set it in FI, I could infuse it with some form of > Brythonic on the way to Iceland (Suula < Thule). I have decided that the ancestors of the speakers of Liiqa Laasiina pass through Syria and Egypt, picking up local words, and is spoken on Soqotra.