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--- theiling@hidden.email wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like to announce my new romlang
> Terkunan [tErku'nan] or
> 'Tarragonian'. It was designed to be what I
> feel is an elegant
> romlang derived from Vulgar Latin. In contrast
> to �rj�trunn, there is
> not one strict set of sound changes taken from
> another existing
> natlang, but a set compiled by my personal
> preferences. (Are there
> names to distinguish these two types of
> conlangs?)
I might suggest "Historical Conlang" (derived
from "historical novel") because these particular
languages are based on historical models and
primary world phonologies.
The others are just normal artlangs -- their
basis is as much artistic in nature as realistic.
> Some sound changes:
>
> - drop of initial unstressed i-: imperium
> > mperi
> - drop of final vowels: panem
> > pan
> - no palatalisation: caelum
> > kel
> - l > r shifts: blancum
> > branke
> - syncope: hominem
> > ombre
> - r..r dissimilation: regnum
> > ringle
> - epenthesis: insula
> > istre
Well, I can tell thee right away that I _love_
the sound of this language! Though I wonder why
sometimes the final -um drops off and sometimes
it becomes -e? Will look more later!
Padraic
Camifi, Marusi, teterani, tester fuferios asteros; tamenio
vem Persaecion empuriase ed ec pasem emduriase!
--Pomperios Perfurios.
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