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My imaginary speakers live in the present day area called the Kaliningrad
Oblast of Russia, which is between Lithuania and Poland. It used to be East
Prussia. The major city there is Kaliningrad which in German was called
Ko:nigsberg. There was a period of time when Rome did occupy this area. They
called Kaliningrad, Regiomontum. As near as I can tell that name was used
for the region as well. I used that name as the basis for the English word
Regimonti
It is my understanding that when a vulgar Latin speaking people were
surrounded by non-Romans, the name of their language tends to be dervied
from either "Roman" (Romanian is simply Romana) or from "Latin" (Ladin)
Rumans,a was how I chose to name the language.
I'm truly delighted to know that you like the look of the language.
Hope this helps.
Scotto
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan van Steenbergen [mailto:ijzeren_jan@hidden.email]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 12:59 AM
To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [romconlang] Re: Romance family tree
--- Scotto Hlad skrzypszy:
> Here is an example, Jan,
> I have just created a site for my two conlang projects. You can see
> some Rumansa at http://ca.geocities.com/rumavystou
Thanks! I like the looks of this language. Don't forget to add this
to www.langmaker.com!
Yet, I still don't fully understand the name of the language. Is
Regimonti a geographical denomination and Rumans,a an ethnical? Where
do your imaginary speakers live?
Jan
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