European Romance Language Communication

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Play Mini-Game | Word Lists

This project is based on the work of William J. McCann, Horst G. Klein, & Tilbert D. Stegmann in their book EuroRomCom - The Seven Sieves: How to read all the Romance languages right away.

These resources are intended for the use of pre-existing knowledge in one Romance language to passively understand written content from another. It contains a collection of word lists which exist in all or several Romance languages, interactive learning activities, and links to external resources.

Table of Contents

• Background
• Word lists
• Activities
• Seven Sieves
• Related Concepts
• List of Romance languages
• External Resources
• Known Typos
• Contribute
• License

Background

TODO

Word lists

• List of completely Pan-Romance words - word list | json - page 32 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• The nucleus of the Pan-Romance Vocabulary - page 33-36 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• List of the Pan-Romance words that have been preserved in eight languages - word list | json - page 37-38 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• Pan-Romance elements borrowed from learned Latin - word list | json - page 48-49 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• Pan-Romance words from the Germanic languages - word list | json - page 50-51 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• Latin-derived prefixes in the Romance languages - page 128-129 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• Greek-derived Prefixes in the Romance languages - page 129-130 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• Nominal suffixes (nouns and adjectives) - page 130-131 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• Common Greek suffixes in the Romance languages - page 131-132 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• List of Romance profile Words - page 133-139 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.
• Supplementary list of Pan-Romance vocabulary (present in at least 5 languages) - page 218-223 of EuroRomCom: The Seven Sieves.

Activities

• Word lists
• Simple Quiz
• TODO add more activities

Seven Sieves

• International Vocabulary - TODO
• Pan-Romance Vocabulary - TODO
• Sound Correspondences - TODO
• Spelling and Pronunciation - TODO
• Pan-Romance Syntactic Structures - TODO
• Morphosyntactic Elements - TODO
• Prefixes and suffixes: "Eurofixes" - TODO

Related Concepts

• Dialect continuum - Idea that languages developed across a spectrum rather than as distinct units.
• Mutual intelligibility - Ability for speakers of one language to understand another language using their first.

List of Romance languages

• Latin, Vulgar Latin, Apulian, Aragonese, Aromanian, Asturian, Bolognese, Catalan, Corsican, Emilian, Extremaduran, Franco-Provençal, French, Friulian, Galician, Gallurese, Italian, Judaeo-Spanish, Ladin, Leonese, Ligurian, Lombard (east.)(Bergamasque), Lombard (west.), Magoua, Milanese, Mirandese, Mozarabic, Neapolitan, Norman, Occitan, Picard, Piedmontese, Portuguese, Rhonian, Romagnol, Romanian, Romansh, Sardinian, Sassarese, Sicilian, Spanish, Tuscan, Umbrian, Venetian, Walloon

External Resources

• EuroRomCom site (German)
• University of Frankfurt - 7 Siebe (German)
• Wikipedia Romance Languages
• Introducing Micrela: Predicting Mutual Intelligibility Between Closely Related Languages in Europe
• Language Evolution Simulation (multimedia)
• Cognate Vocabulary in Language Acquisition and Use: Attitudes, Awareness
• Vistas of English for Specific Purposes, Chapter 7

Known typos

Add typos you find in the original book here

• Page 38, english column for foot incorrectly says food.

Contribute

Feel free to dive in! Open an issue or submit PRs.

License

MIT