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Re: [romconlang] Re: Conlanger Colony




On 07 Jul 2009, at 10:49, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
On 2009-07-07 Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
(only as far as proto-Western-Romance because after that
I couldn't decide whether to follow more
Occitan/Catalan-style changes or Spanish style changes

As a closet (because he's an academic linguist...)
conlanger friend once said to me: "When in doubt about
what direction to take, create a dialect!"


Well, I suppose that as an oblique nod to my original idea about a Langobardic-flavoured Germanic conlang, for what turns out to be my Romance-flavoured Germanic conlang could take a few features from Gallo-Italic Lombard dialects. :) Although, now that I think of it, Lombard dialects are supposed to be a bit closer to Occitan in some ways than they are to Italian, and I am not sure what the medieval dialects (which would reveal the sorts of sound changes I would want to use) would have been like. Does anyone know of any online info regarding particularly Lombardic sound changes from Latin?

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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