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Hi! Padraic Brown writes: > --- theiling@hidden.email wrote: >.. > > 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 Þrjótrunn, 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. Yes, that sounds sensible. Could we name the difference by using 'historical romlang/artlang' vs. 'diachronical romlang/artlang'? The former based on real history, the second, although also using a consistent conhistory, on a fictional set of rules? >... > Well, I can tell thee right away that I _love_ > the sound of this language! Thanks, that is a nice achievement! :-) > Though I wonder why sometimes the final -um drops off and sometimes > it becomes -e? Will look more later! The -e is left if the final cluster is categorised unpronouncible in isolation. Phonology allows only single alveolars, and only sonorants or voicesless consonants. I.e. -n, -r, -l, -t, -s. There is currently a contradiction for the plural ending -s that produces more complex clusters like -ls or -ts. Either I will allow such clusters in the singular, too, or I define that a very recent shift has produced these clusters (e.g. by defining that the older plural ending was -es), after the -e in the stem had dropped/not dropped earlier. **Henrik