From: Padraic Brown (elemtilas@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 13:07:55 EST
--- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> > I wonder why, with all the multitudes of us
> > constructiong
> > Romancelangs, I'm not aware of anyone doing
> > Greeklangs.
>
> I have been wondering about that too, and I
> think I even asked about that on
> Conlang.
Lingua Lucaria has some Hellenic gramatical
features in it, which makes sense, since it
started life as a traders interlanguage between
Carthage, Masilia, Iberia and Magna Grecia. In
The World, Greek itself died out long ago in
favour of Persian and later Lucarian; but it left
quite a goodly amount of vocabulary (especially
medical, philosophical and religious) and some
grammar. I can't recall any examples off hand
except -de which is used to start off an
independent clause. Oh, yeah: Lucaria is properly
written in Hellenic letters.
So you can add that to the list of at least Greek
inspired conlangs!
Padraic.
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Ories-si la Sulis couant goueniont y vathin, levont y vus des al trefoelea, levont y vrum
des y vagges; aie! mays couant levab-el il mew cords?
-- per tradicièn Quemrech
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