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On Sep 14, 2004, at 11:24 PM, Padraic Brown wrote:
--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@hidden.email> wrote:Well, i'm still waiting for someone to respond to my asking for info or links towards info about Romanian, (con- or nat-) Dalmatian, or any other potentially relevant Romance languages I could connect Judajca to.Hm. I thought you'd been working on it! I had no idea it wasn't fleshed out at all. What I'm doubting is that J and B are even connected to other European Romance languages. Wouldn't there be too much distance and political separation between Europe and the Levant? Padraic.
Well, i started working on it... and then i got distracted. And then i tried working on it again and was stunned by the complete lack of knowledge i have about Latin and Romance stuff. Although i have printouts of a lot of really good info people sent me a long time ago... somewhere... I was thinking that it might be possible to tie in Judajca to some European Romancelangs based on the original homeland of the Imperial colonists sent to settle Judea. But tying it down too much might hamper my free will when it comes to aesthetic choices. So maybe the colonists will just be a random mix of people from all over the empire. There're two main stages of Judajca-development that i see: a pre-Hebraicization stage, and a Hebraicization stage. the pre-Hebraicization stage would involve some eroding of words, and some sound shifts including the development of /S/, and maybe /l/>/w/ and /r/>/l/ because i like the idea of those :) . And then the Hebraicization stage would kick in later, with vowel changes and fricativization and development of emphatics.
-Stephen (Steg)
"my suggestion... sleep next to garlic"
~ e