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--- On Tue, 5/26/09, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: >Are other italic conlangs already developed far enough to learn them? I have two or three, though none are well enough described or developped for anyone to be able to learn them. One is loosely similar to Oscan and has only one text (the paternoster, which was quoted here a while back); the other is a roughly Italic based trade jargon turned creole. The latter is better described but nowhere near fully developped. >When I first read In my latin dictionary that there are more italic >languages and I later found out there are not many texts writen in them I >thought somebody should make whole languages of what is left. And Padraic >(thank you) told me there are languages like that in this forum. You're welcome! And that is half the fun of this sort of conlanging -- taking the bits and pieces of such relic languages and cobbling them into something new. For the traders jargon I mentioned, the lexicon is taken from perhaps two dozen ancient languages as disparate as Etruscan and Coptic, not to mention some bits devised from whole cloth. Padraic >:) Thomas