Judajca

 --- Steg Belsky wrote:

> A more recent example of the language is (something like):
> (i hope the 'special' characters go through properly)
>
> CELEP Â HUDDÎ!  CELEP Â HUNNOX!
> (ideally, the circumflexes should be macrons, and there should be
> cedillas hanging from the two Ps)
> [kElEP O hUddi  kElEP O hUnnOt']
> "seize the day!  seize the night!"
I might as well give it a try in Wenedyk. This one is not so difficult:

KARP DZIEJ! KARP NOC!
Fortunately there are no special characters involved in this little sentence,
so the ASCII version corresponds with the real one.

karpier < L. carpere
dziej   < L. die(m) < dies
noc     < L. nocte(m) < nox

> The conhistory background for Jûdajcâ (Ju:d,ajca:) is that instead of
> trying to militarily punish Judea for the Bar Kokhba Rebellion, the
> Romans decided to swamp the country with imperial colonists who would
> absorb the native populations.  However, the plan went wrong when most of
> the colonists ended up "going native" and taking over from the Judeans
> only linguisticly, in that their form of Proto-Romance became the common
> language instead of Hebrew and Aramaic.
I might consider such a possibility, too.

<snip>

> The active future conjugations come from the infinitive plus "to go", if
> i remember correctly.
Why not? It happens in Dutch, too:
"Ik ga je vermoorden" = "I'm gonna kill you"

The future tense in Megza, one of my other languages, works the same.
I won't use in Wenedyk, because it preserves both Latin forms, the futurum and
the futurum exactum.

Thank you for all the information. I have one last request: the numerals (well,
at least those from 1 through 10). I've always had some special interest in the
subject, and already in my childhood I started collecting them (the same thing
as Mark Rosenfelder, I guess, but his collection is much more impressive).

Jan

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