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Re: [romanceconlang] Fortunatian Pronouns and Verbs



Salve!
I've got a couple of questions.

You wrote:
<<<Old Fortunatian
"I" "thou" (Nominative, Genitive, Accusative)
Sg.
N mu' tu' [mu: tu:]
G mi' ti' [mi: ti:]
A me' te' [me: te:]>>>

What is the origin of a strange form |mu'|? In fact, in general, all
pronouns look suspiciously regular...

<<<There are singular and plural forms of the OF verb, which agree with
the subject of the sentence. The singular ends in -at, the plural in -
an>>>

Why did the verb lose personal agreement? All Romance natlangs have it, as
well as Etruscan (afawk) and Berber.

<<< (All regular verbs in OF are first declension in finite form).>>>

Why? Do you mean that most verbs changed their thematic vowel, or only 1st
conjugation verbs remained regular?

IMHO, too much regularity makes a project look like auxlang. Does
Fortunatian pretend to play such a role?

Vale,
Yitzik
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