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--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@hidden.email> wrote: > --- Padraic Brown skrzypszy: > > > [...] but you can certainly send an email to > > Andrew Smith and ask him what his sources for > > > British Vulgar Latin were; because I know his > > > conlang is intended to be a careful > > reconstruction of what mighta / should oughta > > been. > > Yes, but Brithenig is supposed to be a modern > language, isn't it? So is Kerno -- but both have histories that stretch back to the 5th century or so. I can't speak for Andrew, but I have sketches of GMPs for each principal epoch of the Kerno language (although I've probably lost them by now). I also have GMPs for the nominal and verbal inflections. I do know that Andrew's starting point was British Vulgar Latin, so even if he can't provide a 9th century text, at least B has foundations that old and older. > As > far as I know, there is no sample of Brithenig > the way it might have > looked 1000 years ago on Andrew's pages. Is > there? No. We posited (long ago) that his first version of the Babel text might represent something like 16th century Brithenig. Nothing so old as that. > I vaguely recall I > even asked him once, and that he said he hadn't > worked on it. Not a surprise. I think he has always been interested in the modern period of the language. Padraic. AGFAC FGAAF GAFFC FGACF --Glastein Quarters -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .