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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote: > --- Rodlox skrzypszy: > > > Out of curiosity, has anyone made a Romlang where the word- endings > > and suffixes follow Greek rather than Latin rules? > > Not that I know of. I doubt if such an experiment would be very > interesting, though. What surprises me more is that no one ever seems > to have tried applying to Vulgar Latin the changes that made Modern > Greek develop from Classical Greek. Greek seems so much more obvious > than, say, Welsh, Irish or Polish! > > Jan Theophilus/Towr or Tohuyr at kxrift: Unfortunately, the Greek vowel changes preserve too distinct a Latinity (a hyper-conservative dialect, perhaps) and many of the distinctive sounds of Latin are already similar to that of late Greek. I have often wondered about a Greco-Latin sprachbund in terms of stress and phonological development. > > ===== > "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com