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--- On Wed, 7/1/09, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: > I only started doing more conlanging this year and I want to know more > about other peoples projects. Carl Anderson sent me some information > about Aqilonian, what he is working on. He says that it is based on > archaic latin. And, more Romance in nature is Kerno, a language of a supposed West British Romance language family. It is typically VSO, nominal cases are reduced to nominative and oblique, retains a rather large and complex verbal conjugation. Probably the most unRomance features are the conjugated preverbs and mutations and the full compliment of articles and pronouns that allow a very wide range of specificity or generality. And so: a Phazeoir Nusteor que bias 'n y ceues; foreth noef il tew nom; gouenyes il tew camouil; foreth fès la teva gouoluntáts en lâ derra cuomo 'ny ceues; danos-el osdia le nusteor panèn cuotidièn; dimeti y nusteor dheuz cuomo dimitemus ai nusteor dheutoeres; et ne nus attrayer rhen al tentación, mays eliveránus des val. It should be fairly straight forward, but I'll note the more unusual words. "A" is the vocative particle. "Bias" is from the verb "bodar", one of three verbs that mean "be", ysser and forer being the others. "Ceues" < cellos < caelos. "Foreth" is the subjunctive of be. "ny" -- it is common to make ligatures of prepositions and articles, in this case "en y", ini the. "Rhen" is one of perhaps a dozen or two negative particles -- you can get by without the "ne", but not the particle that actually carries the negative meaning. So, "ne ... VERB ... rhen" = does not VERB. And a little poetry. Here we can see the middle particple, "nextament", in action. And the old Celtic particle "ni-", upwards. Can also see the mutations at work, here the nasal mutation indicating an accusative / direct object: "lê" has a slight nasal twang and affects the first sound of the following noun: il clavierys = the piano (nom.); lê glavierys = the piano (acc.). The vocative particle causes aspirate mutation, and so changes the following consonant into yet a different form: nom. il cats, the cat [Il kat] voc. a chat, o cat [@ xat] obl. lê gatte, the cat [lE~ Nat(@)] Il Cats (Pedr ap Iwein). A Chat! Que pens tis, nextament il tew codès? Nisauz il Breasils*; sez ys soer el glavieres. Youwes lê glavierys? Neuy rhen tang basès! Nilegouanz lê peden le fierys; rhoadnons et disauz de newès. * The Cat. O Cat! What are you thinking, your tail twitching? Brasil leaps up! Sits himself on the piano. Does he play the piano? Nothing so common! He lifts his proud head and purrs and leaps down again. *Brasil is ap Iwein's cat's name. > Thomas Padraic