From: BP Jonsson (bpj@melroch.net)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 19:43:28 EST
At 12:48 28.4.2003 +0100, Jan van Steenbergen 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. Nobody really seems to have an answer, except for the fact that Latin
>is better known than Greek, and that the presence of so many Romance natlangs
>makes the creation of new Romance conlang much more obvious than the
>absence of
>any Greek natlangs other than Modern Greek.
>
> > Is there anyone?
>
>Well, there are two examples I can think of: Mesegoika, by Alexis Katsaros,
>which is some sort of Greek-Spanish hybrid. And Ferko Valoczy has presumably
>started a new Slavo-Greek language lately.
In my Lucus timeline Italiotic has remained vigorous and is the general
vernacular
of southern Italy and Sicily, since this area constitutes a Greek empire, an
offshoot of the Byzantine empire, ruled by _ho ton Rhomaion kai ton Sikelon
Basileus_.
The official language remains standard Byzantine Greek -- what they would call
_Rhomaika Katholikon_, i.e. there is a diglossia even more extreme than that of
modern Greek *here*. Admittedly Italiotic is not a conlang, but a "con-revived
natlang", and I haven't worked a whole lot on it beyond trying to digest what
Rohlfs published on Italiotic *here*.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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