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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote: > --- Christian Thalmann skrzypszy: > > > This is a language concept for a human stellar nation in Zahir's > > sci-fi universe-building project Skies of Man. It's basically a > > slightly evolved and extrapolated Spanish, which will hopefully > > acquire some Russian influences too. > > Is this what the whole Earth will be speaking in the year 2800 AD? No, it's a dozen systems's worth of colonies and worlds. We haven't talked about Sol's languages yet. My guess would be that it retains a large number of natlangs, and uses some descendant of English as its IAL. > Funny. Even in a language so close to an existing natlang your hand is > unmistakable. All your conlangs have something in common, which makes them > recognisable as yours. I mean that as a compliment: style is what makes the > artist. Cool, thanks. =D Though admittedly I'm not aware of the style elements which you recognized... neither Obrenje nor Jovian have raising of unstressed vowels, palatalization of /t d s/ (Oro Mpaa has that though), final /h/s, /wa/ and /ja/ diphthongs (plagiar^H^H^H inspired by Wenedyk, no doubt) etc. Is it the use of |c| for /k/? Or the /Z/? > Both -x [S] and -m seem acceptable enough; alternatively, you might consider > using (Ukrainian) -mo in the 1st person pl. That would be even closer to the Spanish template. Good idea. > Otherwise, how exactly do you imagine this Russian influence? The import of > Russian vocab? Syntax? Grammar? Frankly, I know very little Russian, but I find it a really cool language, and a sizable portion of the colonization effort that became Hombraia came from Russia. Aside from the verbal endings, I've also considered replacing the weakened plural -s [h] with Russian plural endings... but I'm afraid this kind of mix-and-matching would end up somewhat implausible. Furthermore, many words already end in [i] in the singular. I'll also have to include some Russian vocab. "Stoi" is just too cool to leave out, though it probably ends up as |toi| in Hombraian phonology. Can those who know some Russian suggest other cool or useful words to import? -- Christian Thalmann