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To: <romconlang@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:19 PM Subject: [romconlang] Re: language names - adverbs?
I-umlauts, u-umlauts, a-umlauts. Of course, the i-umlaut is short for i-umlaut, j-umlaut, R-umlaut and combinatorial palatal umlaut and u-umlaut is short for u-umlaut and w-umlaut. And they happen early and/or late and/or in between, etc. Headache? Yes.
Hahahaha. Sounds like the German is a walk in the park by comparison, with just a limited a-umlaut and a more extensive i/j-umlaut. Must make you some kind of sadolinguist! Or should that be a sadopseudophilologist?
The worst thing is: however irregular my noun and verb paradigms become by all the sound shifts, they will never kick ass like the real Icelandic ones. :-)
I've only just started on the grammar last night (present indicative verbs), but it looks like the sound changes and weakened endings basically redistibute the latin conjugations among 2 or maybe 3 weak and strong classes? In the present tense at least it looks maybe the 1st merges with parts of the 3rd and 4th into a new "weak" conjugation, the 2nd is almost identical (and may merge by analogy perhaps), and a new "strong" ￜ-conjugation is created from parts of the old 3rd and 4th conjugations? Goodness only knows what the perfect will do - all those I mutations and lost inflections!
Are there any verb roots in Latin that end in a vowel, or are they all (C)VC? If there are any with a vowel, there's an interesting problem in that the 2nd and 3rd person singular would be identical (-s)...
It turns out I'd missed one of the vowel changes too. Couldn't figure out how I'd managed to keep /ea/, which shouldn't exist, but I pinned it down finally (I think my master plan runs to some 9 pages!). Means Rhenania now ends up as /ri:n@/ or /ri:nen@/ instead of /rean@/ though, which is a pity. I prefered the incorrect version!
And how angry they get because their vines just don't grow well.
If they could get them to grow at all! Maybe they could invent Eiswein centuries in advance!
**Henrik
-Peter