From: habarakhe4
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 15:33:40 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, draqonfayir@j... wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:20:00 -0000 "habarakhe4
> <theophilus88@h...>" <theophilus88@h...> writes:
> > NWR (New World Romance):
> -
>
> <snipped much interesting information about NWR>
>
> Wow, this is a very cool-looking language! I can't remember you
> mentioning it before, though... or is this a New World development
of
> Fortunatian?
> If not, what kind of background does it have to be 'New World'
Romance?
> or do you mean something other than the Americas by the term "New
World"?
Most of the cultural information was hashed out in CONCULTURE, not
here. New World Romance is the language spoken in the 13th century
AD *there* by the descendants and followers of a group of Roman
prisoners on their way to the Fortunate Isles (but not Fortunatian
speakers themselves) who mutinied and drifted over to Brazil.
As for the layout, I took the reference work _The World's
Languages_, photocopied the entry on Guarani, and substituted my own
Latin-derived forms (with a few modifications, of course) - it was a
lot easier than my efforts to create de novo languages. The use of
Guarani phonology for NWR enabled me to use the same
phonetic/phonemic rules as Guarani. I called it NWR because the
cultural sphere stretches 800 miles up the Amazon River *there*, and
complete linguistic cohesion over such a large area seemed absurd.
BTW, I borrowed your kw>q idea for another project and made the
Semitic-sounding qaiba 'mountain' from the unSemitic-sounding
Hawaiian kahahiwa
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
> "elf booty got soul! elf girls like to rock'n'roll!"
They do? I thought elves didn't have souls, being the spawn of
Lilith and the Devil. ;)
> ~ 'lords of the rhymes'
>
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