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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
Calusto was created for a literary project, as an Indo-European language that was lost during the Roman expansion and later artificially reconstructed. Thus, despite having an alphabet derived from Old Italic script and a grammar influenced by Latin, Calusto's vocabulary includes a large amount of words common to the languages of the Silk Road, including Chinese. | Calusto was created for a literary project, as an Indo-European language that was lost during the Roman expansion and later artificially reconstructed. Thus, despite having an alphabet derived from Old Italic script and a grammar influenced by Latin, Calusto's vocabulary includes a large amount of words common to the languages of the Silk Road, including Chinese. It can be also written with Coptic alphabet. | ||
Its name derives from the word | Its name derives from the word 𐌊𐌀𐌋𐌞 for "mist", making the meaning of Calusto close to "misty". | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||