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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@u...> wrote: > Babnol Rodlox scripsit: > > > Hello; I'm new here. > > Glad to see you here, Rodlox! glad I am to be seen. > > I was told on Conculture that the region of Dar-al-Mar > > would include > > Romania, which is a Romance Language, > What d'ya mean? How a country may be a language? sorry; I forgot the 'n' at the end of 'Romanian'. apologies. > As for the lang: is it basicly Romance or basicly Arabic? basically Arabic, with varying degrees of Romance and-or Slavic loans and imports. it might end up being heavily Romance or even largely Romance with strong strains of Arabic. translation: so far, it is. :) > I looked at your pages. They are very difficult to read. sorry. > Please, don't explain sounds with English (and other > natlangs) examples. It's very ambiguous. sorry; I was using a website that taught Serbian, and an English- Arabic dictionary. > Use IPA or any its > ASCIIfication. *blank look* um, I'm new to this whole thing. could you say that in English? > Make it more presentable. okay. > Don't just throw > ideas. unfortunately, at least at this early stage (this is my first conlang that's more than just haphazard scribbles), that's how I think. > > I'm already planning [slight] modification to the Arabic > letters in > > Dar-al-Mar as it is. > > If they're Muslims (and indeed they are), they would NEVER > dare to disfigure sacred letters used in the Qur'an. what I thought was that they'd have Quranic Arabic script, and they'd also have this concultural script. > They > may use diacritics, the U, circle, and dot, right? > on the other had, if they need to denote > sound absent in Classic Arabic. Lokk what Farsi and Urdu do. > Get acquainted, e.g., with this: > Search in Conlang-L archives for "Rumiya". It may help too okay. > (that was my old abandoned project). yeah, I was considering - even before I started Dar-al-Mar - asking you if I could look at Rumiya. > > I look forwards to your comments, and suggestions on > > whether or not I should > > do things such as reducing the present number of letters > > (51). > > I would have said something if I had seen the lettershapes. with luck it should be there by now...I posted my notice to this list, then I'd gone and updated my website; apologies.