From: Barry Garcia (barry_garcia@monterey.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 16:38:55 EST
romanceconlang@egroups.com writes:
>Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:26:19 -0000
> From: "Zebuleon " <zebuleon@peoplepc.com>
>Subject: sources
>
>I have been considering doing a romance lang as well and I was
>wondering what are the primary sources your using, ie. Latin, French,
>Romanian, etc. Which langs are you using as a proto-lang. On a
>similar note which dictionaries or other vocab sources are you using.
>
>Mario
My sources are often Vulgar Latin words (whenever I can get word lists),
but i generally look at Portuguese and Spanish for words (following the
sound change charts I copied), and try to construct words that way (it's
pretty reliable), such as where Spanish has "hembra" (from femina),
Montreiano has feñna (/feNna/). Most of the words I got were from "A
History of The Spanish Language" by Ralph Penny (IIRC), and "From Latin to
Romance in Sound Charts", so i could have a sensible set of changes (i
based it off of the changes listed in it, and then went my own direction
to develop Montreiano). I havent spent time on the protolang. I wanted a
modern language (I really dont have time to do a proto-lang, and then
derive the modern lang).
Anyway, hi, i signed up the other day. Small list, but a nice one.
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