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Re: [romconlang] What are african romlangs like?



--- On Tue, 1/12/10, Capsicum <thomas@hidden.email> wrote:

>I would like to know what is typical for african romance languages. Is >the african latin dimunitive suffix '-îcca' in use? Are those languages >similar to Spanish, Sicilian and the like?

>*smile*

>Capsicum

Adam Walker has been working on a North African Romance language for a while now, called Carraxena (Carthaginian, as I recall). He usually uses some Bible passage as a .sig, for example:

"Nivechigadu ul omu fi nu nul cunsiju djuls ímfius avevad amvuinadu, fi ni nal via djuls pecadorus avevad pedizadu, fi ni nul sedigu djuls zagagadus avevad xedjidigadu. Saumu 1:1"

Is that close enough to Spanish and Sicilian for you? ;)) Honestly, "pecadorus" is the only word that looks even remotely Romance to me, though I know most of the words in there have good Latin etymologies, if not all.

Padraic