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If I recall correctly, I remember reading somewhere that African Romance was similar in phonology to Sardinian. Both varieties lost phonemic vowel quantity distinctions before the long and short vowels were qualitatively dissimilated. This is why in the Sardinian system the Classical Latin vowels /i:/ and /i/ merge, while in the other varieties of Romance /i:/ remained while /i/ merged with /e:/. Dan ________________________________________ From: Padraic Brown Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2011 8:42 PM I don't know what century that text is supposed to come from in the C-a world. I'd like to see this North African Romance text that you have! Hopefully you haven't misplaced it! Padraic --- Poisve numinest errasum; nunius ni insifianter, in errosum pirsifassum. --Mircur T. Piperuns --- On Sat, 4/16/11, Pituxalina <pituxalina@hidden.email> wrote: From: Pituxalina <pituxalina@hidden.email> Subject: [romconlang] Re: What are african romlangs like? To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 4:05 AM --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> wrote: > > --- On Tue, 1/12/10, Capsicum <thomas@...> 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 > From what century would that version of North African Romance be? I read that North African Romance actually existed until the 10th century. I also have a text from the 7th century that is more North African Romance than Latin. I'll have to dig it out and copy it out here when I can. I hope I still have it! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]