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Thanks Henrik! Henrik Theiling scrobe: Hi! ...
Well, yes, but Icelandic keeps more vowels in its endings that German, so it's even! :-)
I ran through the sound changes one time without levelling the final vowel to <e>, and I had, more or less, a perfectly usable set of declensions, which was frustrating! However, my aim is to remain as faithful as possible to the Hochdeutsch phonology - and V > /@/ | $_# is a key feature, so I need to keep it.
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But then remember that the plural in Latin had some collapsed forms already (in 'filiis') and the 3rd declension not not m/f gender distinctions altogether. So I did not fear such a collapse and went for innovations to resolve this if necessary, e.g. filius vs. filiola or sometimes -ina endings. Latin already did the same thing in agricola/agricolina IIRC.
Yes, I think this will (have to) turn out to be a key feature of my creation also
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Some changes were dramatic in Germanic. What do you mean by moving away?
I mean that I am not trying to create *any* Romance language, but rather, very specifically, a Romance form of German (or a German form of Romance, depending on your view point). Consequently my "rules" are that I must mirror as closely as possible the Gmc>AHD>MHD>NHD sound changes as closly as possible. Where this causes problems, I have to find a realistic "work-around", rather than change the phonology - unless its complety unavoidable.
Pete.