An Interesting Find...

[Cresti Nouacastra-Läxhirescu]

So I came across something today. After conducting some searches on the internet for some African-based constructed languages, I came across something called the "Carrajina Project."

carrajina.conlang.org/

carrajina.conlang.org/lalimba.html

carrajina.conlang.org/timeline.html

I knew something looked extremely familiar about it. If you read into the website more, it mentions Talossa in its mythical history. For example...

"After the conversion of Talossa to Donatist teachings and the failure of the Pope's so called Albigensian Crusade to recapture the Talossan lands, contact between speakers of Carrajena and those of Occitan increased dramitacally and a number of borrowings happened in both directions. Some scholars concider this to be the beginning of Middle Carrajena."

And...

"AD 1209 -- Innocent III declares a crusade against the Donatists. Bézeirs and Carcasonne fall. Raymond VI of Talossa publicly flogged. William III is publically baptized as a Donatist."
"AD 1210 -- Termes falls to the Crusaders under Simon de Montfort. March of the Blind. King William III of Carraja sends 700 knights and a delegation of Donatist priests and bishops to Count Raymond VI at Talossa."
"AD 1215 -- Fourth Lateran outlaws trial by ordeal. Simon of Montfort sacks Talossa. William III sends more knights to Raymond VI."
"AD 1217 -- Raymond VI retakes Talossa. Simon de Montfort dies at Talossa."
"AD 1222 -- Raymond VI dies. Raymond VII acceeds in Talossa."
"AD 1224 -- Louis VIII invades Talossa."

I just want to know if anybody here knows anything about this project? Maybe it was created by one of our citizens? Who knows? The language itself is pretty interesting, though (but blatantly based on Talossan).

Miestrâ Schivâ, UrN, care to comment on this?

[Tamoran Montagnhard]

The history seems interesting, but I can't access any page related to the language. I can say that I didn't expect "la limba" to be the name of an African-based conlang.

An interesting research for canlang is Conworkshop, I myself published some languages (though just projects) there too.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial]

In all honesty, I can't find any trace of specifically Talossan influence in La Limba. Am I missing something?

[Sir C. M. Siervicül]

Jun 21, 2019 16:31:36 GMT -6 Tamoran Montagnhard said:

The history seems interesting, but I can't access any page related to the language. I can say that I didn't expect "la limba" to be the name of an African-based conlang.

It isn’t truly “African-based” in the sense of a conlang based on native African language. It’s an African Romance language. So “la limba” is from Latin “lingua”, tongue, like Talossan “glhimba” (which used to be spelled llimba, and also used to mean language, as in Llimbaziua, the name of the holiday celebrating the Talossan language).

Jun 21, 2019 16:48:31 GMT -6 Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial said:

In all honesty, I can't find any trace of specifically Talossan influence in La Limba. Am I missing something?

The influence of Talossan is just in the basic concept or inspiration, I think. It’s essentially an attempt to take a more rigorous and realistic approach to the question of how Latin as spoken by a kingdom of African Donatists would evolve over time.

I’ve thought about contacting the language’s creator a few times over the years to see if he would be interested in working on Talossan, but never reached out. Partly because I was never sure whether he was still actively conlanging.