On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 01:02:44 -0500 Don Blaheta <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> >Well, "of the Jews" was "Iudaeorum", so "Iudaeus/Iudaea" (Jew,
>Judean)
>> >would be what you're looking for.

>> How is Iudaea pronounced? /judaea/ ? /judaEa/ ?  Are any of the
>vowels
>> long?  Is the normal Latin suffix for language/nationality/etc.
>_-a_?

>The first part is pretty definitely /jud/.  The diphthong "ae" I'm not
>positive about; in my Latin class we said /aj/, but I'd imagine it was
>originally as written: /ae/.

>Also, I think I was misleading in the way I gave a translation:
>"Iudaeus" and "Iudaea" both mean "Jew" or "Judean"; the former is
>masculine, the latter feminine.

So "language" is feminine in Latin?  According to my dictionary, English
"language" comes from Latin _lingua_.  But is that /liNgua/ or /liNgwa/ ?

/liNgua/  would probably become /lINgu?a/
/liNgwa/ would probably become /lINgva/

>> I remember someone saying that the Latin plural ending was _-i:_, so
>(if
>> that's correct) in Judean it'd be _-i:n_, because of the Aramaic
>> influence.

>Ack.  Really, I think you need to learn a bit more Latin if you're
>going
>to do a romancelang. ;)  -i: was one of _very many_ plural endings;
>specifically, it was the masculine, second declension, nominative
>plural
>ending.  Here's as much as I remember of the paradigms for first (fem)
>and second (masc/neut) declensions, the most common ones:
>
>     1s     1p      2s     2p
>nom  -a    -ae    -us/um  -i/a
>gen  -ae   -arum   -i     -orum
>dat  -ae   -is     -o      -is
>acc  -am   -as    -um     -os
>abl  -a    -is    -o      -is
>
>The point is, there are a _lot_ of endings you'll have to deal
>with---and this is just the first two declensions; there are three
>more.
>:)  And that's to say nothing of the conjugations...  Look, go out to
>a
>used bookstore and find yourself a good Latin grammar.  It's pretty
>cool---rather regular for a natural language---and books are always
>good
>investments, no? ;)

Great....i guess i really should have waited a while before starting this
insane project :)  Bookstore, here i come...

>-=-Don
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