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Re: Romance family tree

--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@m...>
wrote:

> I tend to use "Slvanjec" and "Slevan" somewhat indiscriminately,
> mostly out of fear that ['sl=van_jEts] will get mispronounced.
> In German it is "Schlewanisch", in French "Slévanois" and in
> Hungarian "Szelvanyec"! ;)

Heh...  have I ever even posted the native name of Jovian?
It's probably |Joevana| [ja'va:n], though it could also be
|Joeva| [jAjv], from Latin (lingua) iovia or |Joeve| [jAjv]
from (lingua) iovis.


-- Christian Thalmann