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Actually, for what it's worth, Andrew has openly stated that Brithenig was inspired by a Welsh-like Romance "conlang" used as a hypothetical example in D.B. Gregor's Celtic: A Comparative Study. So I'll have twenty quid please.

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I've thought of doing a Romlang derived from late Old Latin/early Classical Latin (before the final -M had become mere nasalization) preserving the Nominative, Accusative, and Dative cases.

I've too, TaylorS. I had the idea of having a small band of religious Romans sailing out and settling on the Azores, thinking it a holy isle for them, not long after Carthage was conquered. I've not worked on it for a while, but it did have some quirks that I liked, and I'll probably come back to someday.

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I am Ratatosk, Norse Squirrel of Strife!

There are 10 types of people in this world:
-Those who understand binary
-Those who don't

Mater tua circeta ibat et pater tuus sambucorum olficiebat!

Would they set out in a boat called the MAYFLOWERUM?

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كان يا ما كان / يا صمت العشية / قمري هاجر في الصبح بعيدا / في العيون العسلية

tà yi póbo tsùtsùr ciivà dè!

short texts in Cuhbi

Risha Cuhbi grammar

Of course, it is perfectly legitimate to do something that has been done before. We are not in auxland, nor at the patent office. But it is always better to do something new - if what you are doing has been done before, do it in a different way. And I didn't know that Andrew was inspired by a sketch in a linguistics book.

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...brought to you by the Weeping Elf
Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A

You mean the Flos Maii?

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...brought to you by the Weeping Elf
Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A

Why aren't there any a posteriori langs from Ancient Greek?

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

Now that you say that, do we have any Greek members here?

Because Ancient Greek is very hard to learn, so fewer people know it.

There's Philip Newton's Engadinese, which is derived from Ancient Greek with sound changes similar to those of Romansh. As far as I know he doesn't have a grammar online, but a sample text with some grammatical information (from the LCC4 relay) is here, and there are a few posts about the language on Philip's blog. He used to be an active member of the ZBB in its early days, but doesn't post here much anymore.

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Blog: audmanh.wordpress.com
Conlangs: Ronc Tyu | Buruya Nzaysa | Doayâu | Tmaśareʔ

At one point, I began to sketch a Romancified Greek, that exhibited changes evocative of those displayed by the Romance languages, but I got very caught up in the pronunciation shift of the alphabet to focus on grammatical modification. The problem was in learning the darn thing, and I never got around to learning the forms of "to be" . Maybe I still have the document.

And everything that i DON'T think. This seems to me to be a one-eyed approach, lacking a third dimension. To me, there is no point carefully replicated the 'minutiae' of things that have already happened but having them happen in a slightly different order. That's like remaking the Omen by faithfully replicating every line and shot, scene by scene. For me, the whole point of it all is exploring and lauding and embracing possibility and potential: Latin is an assembly of potential developments. I play with my Romlang ideas because it entertains me - elevates me, even - to try to bring out that potential, hiding the conventional in the exotic, and the exotic within the conventional: things that people think are weird but are actually quite sensible, and that they think are sensible but are weird underneath; and of course things that are weird right through, without which neither of the other two would be in the least bit possible. Every sound change that happened in reality is of interest only because of the sound changes that did not happen, the changes that are implied and denied. Creating a background against which romnatlangs can repose is more of a tribute to them than a slavish imitation would be.

Nor do the realists seem entirely consistent in their ideology. Almost all of them eschew the mundane for the weird. Dewrad here, for instance, has an Eastern Romance language - almost as strange as a Southern Romance language - based on scarcely-attested dialects, and has in the past specifically boasted of the weirdness of the vowel changes, iirc.

If everybody's so keen on the minutiae of attested romlangs, where are all the precise little Oeil languages set in the western Jura? Where are the "what if a romlang was spoken in northern belgium?" conlangs?

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Blog: http://vacuouswastrel.wordpress.com/

But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

I do have a (sketch of) a Semitic conlang for my alternative world, and another one descended from Modern Hebrew, on which I have elaborated much more. And I also have another branch of Indo-European, as do some others. At one point I also toyed with a descendant of contemporary Japanese, but it didn't go very far, and I don't think I was anywhere near competent enough to do that back then.
If somebody wants to, though, I'm willing to join on some a-posteriori conlanging project. I love a-posteriori conlanging

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Languages I speak fluently
English, עברית

Languages I am studying
العربية, 日本語

Conlangs
Athonian