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--- Henrik Theiling <theiling@hidden.email> wrote:
> 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 �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.
>
> 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?
I'm sure such a distinction could be made, but
I'm not sure it would matter. The difference is
still one of an historical model v. pure
aesthetics, right? Or did I miss something?
> >...
> > 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.
Got it.
> 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.
Interesting stuff! It certainly adds depth to a
conlang to consider details like this.
Padraic
>
> **Henrik
>
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