Re: Brithenig et al. Universe (was: Brithenig/Aelyan North America)

On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:19:30 +0100 yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...> writes:
> Steg wrote:
> > So...do any of the inhabitants of the Brithenig Etc. Universe see
> any
> > problem with me placing my Judean Romance speakers down there out
> of the
> > way on the eastern Mediterranean?
> Would they travel much? If they do I'd like to steal a bit of their
> lexicon,
> if you don't mind!
>
> Dan
.

I guess they would travel, although not as a migration (that's the whole
idea of having Judea not getting wiped off the map).  I can see a lot of
travel between the Môledet [mowlEzEs] ("Homeland") and the Diasporan
communities, especially North Africa and Europe during the Middle Ages,
and Zêpará (Sephardic North America) after in post-Columbian times.
The only issue is that when traveling in the diaspora, Judeans would be
more prone to speak in Hebrew (the Universal Jewish Language) to
communicate with a wider range of Diasporans instead of speaking a
regional language like Judean, Khazarian, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic or
Yiddish.
I haven't settled on their lexicon, either. :-b
The Judean *language* is in hibernation now, since i confused myself
completely just trying to figure out the relative sound-changes for verb
conjugation.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "while the conlang's away, the concultures play."