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Re: [romconlang]Romance family tree



Scotto Hlad scripsit:


> 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
>
> Do go and have a read.

Nice looking. Pretty naturalistic. Doesn't look like an IAL, as some
romlangs do.
I'd love to know how to read the stuff, too.

> 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.

Hmm. A good choice of the place - ex-USSR is a terra incognita in the West
:)
That is why I qualify my present Turkic project as a "lostlang" by placing
it in the steppes between Ukraine and Russia.
Keep on working!

Best wishes,
-- Yitzik