There is that new wiki I would like to support. There is hardly anything on it right now, but I like the idea. It would be a page were people who are into...
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thomasruhm
Jun 20, 2012 8:02 pm
We could make a romlang party or another kind of meet up. Maybe I can get a house for it. People could bring texts and read them aloud and things like that....
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thomasruhm
Jul 5, 2012 4:08 pm
Maybe some of you remember that I am interested in it, but it is so hard to find any material to learn it, so I think it might be sacked already. Thomas...
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Daniel Prohaska
ryanprohaskadan
Jul 6, 2012 10:09 am
Hi Thomas, I have some material. The best stuff available is still Bartoli's "Das Dalmatische". I have an (almost) complete copy of it and the relevant...
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Thomas Ruhm
thomasruhm
Jul 6, 2012 10:54 am
Hi Dan, the university is not so big, but I am going to ask there. I think I would be able to pick up much of Vegliot in a mixed written conversation. Do you...
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Daniel Prohaska
ryanprohaskadan
Jul 6, 2012 11:42 am
... Vegliot is a so-called "Trümmersprache" - it needs serious reconstruction before it can be used in conversation. ... Maybe, I'll ask around before I pass...
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thomasruhm
Jul 11, 2012 1:44 pm
I am working much on plans for language revival houses and today it came to my mind that making one for Cornish would be a good idea, because many people...
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thomasruhm
Jul 31, 2012 11:37 am
One could use constructed phonetically pure latin words like '*vôs' for 'bôs' and '*luquus' as seen in 'Einführung in das Studium der romanischen...
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Carl Edlund Anderson
carlsefni
Aug 1, 2012 1:57 pm
... Yes, actually -- although it has been a year or so since I have had time to work on it. (Demands of job, fatherhood, etc.!) But, anyway, in my "Aqileian";...
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thomasruhm
Aug 2, 2012 4:30 pm
Are there also people who are trying to put more celtic words in their romance conlangs? It might be a bit tricky to find the right sound laws, because there...
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Carl Edlund Anderson
carlsefni
Aug 2, 2012 5:39 pm
... I haven't tried to _create_ more loans from Celtic, though in instances where I try to create a new Italic word from PIE, I tend to give precedence to...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Aug 2, 2012 10:35 pm
Kerno (and its predecessor lang) ended up with quite a few Celtic words. Probably more than any ordinary Romance languages would really have, but aesthetics...
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Deiniol Jones
feuchard
Aug 2, 2012 11:35 pm
... The Dravean lexicon probably has an above average Celtic component, probably simply because I have access to some very good etymological dictionaries of...
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Thomas Ruhm
thomasruhm
Aug 3, 2012 5:43 am
Are many words one finds in Celtic etymological dictionaries with 'i-' with 'ia' in Vulgar Latin? On my present stage of knowledge I would have to develop...
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BPJ
melroch
Aug 5, 2012 10:36 am
... You are not alone. I have sketched out a con-reconstruction of Burgundian -- the Germanic language -- to flavor parts of the Germanic adstratum of...
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Thomas Ruhm
thomasruhm
Aug 5, 2012 9:29 pm
I do find it great that you two do work so accurately on that matter because I find developing words the most fascinating part of it all and Proto-Albanian and...
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BPJ
melroch
Aug 5, 2012 11:00 pm
... Of course we don't really know anything about Burgundian. It's really just reconstructed pre-Gothic taken on another tangent more similar to Scandinavian,...
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Thomas Ruhm
thomasruhm
Aug 6, 2012 9:58 am
That is what I call substitute language. It would be useful to give people the taste of a lost language and even people from the place where the original...
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thomasruhm
Aug 8, 2012 4:21 pm
There should be a dictionary for constructed Latin words like that as a base for romance conlangs. Finding words is exhausting when making...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Aug 8, 2012 5:09 pm
I do believe the Vatican has a dictionary of modernly construed words. Don't know if that would be helpful or not....
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Thomas Ruhm
thomasruhm
Aug 9, 2012 12:35 pm
The Vatican latin dictionary is not good. It has for the most part just descriptions in it and I think they only collected it from some of their people instead...
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BPJ
melroch
Aug 9, 2012 8:25 pm
... They did what is the Right Thing from a modern Latinist perspective: made up circumlocutions based on Classical vocabulary. In the Renaissance some people...
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thomasruhm
Aug 11, 2012 4:42 pm
Yesterday I did collect names for plants and plant parts from the Labarion glossary. There they are. I also developed them to Latin on spec. ballâ – aballa...
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thomasruhm
Aug 11, 2012 6:52 pm
The Vatican Latin word for ski is narta. I do like that one. And I am sure there are other good words in the dictionary too, but I did expect more. Thomas...
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BPJ
melroch
Sep 13, 2012 10:01 am
I found this on Googlo Books yesterday and thought it may be interesting. The changes from classical to vulgar Latin are well described, taking other Rmc...
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Carl Edlund Anderson
carlsefni
Sep 13, 2012 10:28 pm
... Nice! It's only USD 30 on Amazon, as well, and so shouldn't break the bank unduly. Looks like a good complement to Ralph Penny's book on Spanish, and so...
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Eric Christopherson
draximus99
Sep 14, 2012 6:06 am
... Oh! I picked that up many years ago at a university book store. It's quite good. I also enjoyed Lathrop's _Curso de gramatica historica española_....
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al_fishes
Sep 25, 2012 3:58 am
Hello to Romconlang! This is my first post to the board, but I imagine many of you recognize me from Conculture. I am new to conlanging. I was first...
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Padraic Brown
elemtilas
Sep 29, 2012 12:51 am
Also known as Iconia, the Romishcallia is a country of the Eastlands and situated just to the north and west of Auntimoanye. A descendant of the ancient...
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thomasruhm
Oct 2, 2012 7:03 pm
Hello Ben, the Parra flag looks similar to the Mars flag. I did not read your whole post yet. The Crimea mostly interesting for me because of Crimean Gothic. ...
