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Barry Garcia skrev:
> On 3/23/07, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email> wrote:
>
>> --- Christian Thalmann <cinga@hidden.email> wrote:
>
>> It does seem to be popular to graft _something_ onto
>> Latin in this way. I've never done an Allemanoromance
>> conlang as they have never appealed to me. I think
>> Germanic maybe has too much of a sound shift and too
>> different a verbal structure for it to be pleasing
>> for me.
>>
>
> This makes me wonder, what would a Filipinized Latin look
> like (not just sound changes, but slight tweaks of the
> grammar)? Or, if I had a handy source of proto-
> Austronesian sound changes, that would be interesting to
> apply it to Latin!
You should ask Roger Mills rfmilly at eM eS eN dot com (I
hope you get that. He probably gets his fair share of spam
on that domain anyway...) He's a professional
Austronesianist, you know.
> Maybe it would look a bit like Chavacano? :)
Now that makes me curious what Chavacano looks like! :-)
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