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Re: [romanceconlang] Kerno grammatical sketch was RE: Cats and Oliphaunts and the Elk that Badger them...



 --- Padraic Brown skrzypszy: 

> There is, at last, the beginnings of a sketch of
> Kerno grammar online:
> 
> <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad/kerno_grammar_paradigms.htm>

Great great great! 

So, what's the difference between "il" and "ill", "y" and "ils", etc. Is this a
matter of non-standard spelling? Of dialect? Could both versions exist in one
and the same text? Has it anything to do with the initial vowel/consonant of
the next word?

Speaking of non-standard spelling: I already found six versions of the word
"fifteen": "couintheck", "cyntheck", "pymptheck", and "pyngthack" in the
vocabulary, and now "cuyntheck" and "couenze" in the grammar. And only in the
case of "pymptheck" you add the text "prov.".
It seems that Kerno is really on the verge of Romance, P-Celtic and Q-Celtic.

> As of now, it's only the chief paradigms
> (articles, nouns, verbs, etc.); I hope to get up
> some descriptive information soon. 

Please do!

> The paradigms should be enough
> to pick apart most anything I write; or (for the
> intrepid adventurer) put something together in a
> sensible fashion.

As soon as I have the time, I will try.

Jan

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