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Hello
I am a new member here (although some may know me from the Conlang list, as the creator of Silindion). I haven't really done any conlanging for a long time, but recently, I've been playing around with doing a Romlang. This comes from attending several conferences that were very heavy into Romance dialects: first one about Italian Dialects then one about Historical Linguistics.
Anyway, the new Romlang is a Northern Italian dialect, with a small twist in grammar: it has cases and three genders This in addition to its subject clitics, makes it kind of cool (in my humble opinion).
In phonology, it is somewhat like Italian but also somewhat like Portuguese (and occasionally Romanian). Like Italian, it turns Vulgar Latin -culum sequences into -cchio. Like Portugues, medial ungeminated /l/, /n/ and sometimes /r/ is dropped (but only when after the stress). Like some Northern Italian dialects, medial -t- is dropped (especially in past participles), again when after the stress.
Another thing that I decided was cool was Italian 'domandare' from 'demandare'. I have taken this to extreme, so that whenever an original Latin /e/ was in in contact with a labial (even across a /r/ or /l/, then it became /o/.
Here is a sample vocabulary (with Vulgar Latin in parentheses)
cavallo horse(caballos)
touall(totu)
fecàliver(fecatu)(neuter)
ioscovobishop(epscopos)
autaiaaltar(altaria)
chorrito look for(querere)
castaiobrown(castanjos)
mutaìto change(mutare)
fomaccheese(formaticu)(neuter)
janollawindow(januella)
seiaevening(sera)
poiafight(pugna)
gassuetayoung woman(garsonetta)
tervaiaìto work(tripaliare)
sambeblood(sanguis)
limbatongue(lingua)
broveshort(brevis)
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Okay, now to business.
Nouns:
Three cases: Nom., Acc., Obl.
Masculine:
SingularPlural
Nom.elcatto (cat)licatti
Acclocatlocatto
Oblluicattolecatte
(illecattosillicatti)
(illumcattuilloscattos)
(illuicattoilliscattis)
Feminine:
SingularPlural
Nom.lavacca (cow)levacce
Acc.lavaccalevacce
Obl.levaccelevacce
(illavaccaillaevaccae)
(illamvaccamillasvaccas)
(illae vaccaeillisvaccis)
Neuter:losas(rock)lasassa
losaslasassa
luisassolesasse
(<saxo)
Other Declensions:
3rd Declension:
par(Sg.parri, parri)'father'
(Pl.parre, parre, parre)
native (Sg. nativai, nativai)'birth'
(Pl. nativai, nativai, nativai)
reì(Sg.regi,regi)'king'
(Plrege, rege, rege)
tompo (Sg. tompo, tompori)'time'
(Pl. tompora, tompora, tompore)
4th Declension: (mostly replaces by 1st declension)
mano (Sg. man, mano)'hand'
(Pl mano/mani, mano, mane)
5th Declension:(indeclinable)
jie (Sg.jie, jie)'days'
(Pljie, jie, jie)
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Verbs:
I won't go into the details now, but here are the subject clitics and one present tense paradigm.
vederi 'see'
i vijo nevedemo
te vedivevedeì
a vediiviju
a = l' after or before vowels:
el mi l vedi 'he sees me'
heme3Ssees
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Two sample texts:
A) Something silly:
la muie miamil domandacheifojo pe le tervaie
thewomanmyme3Saskwhat1SdoI for the.OBL job.OBL
Mai nun i fo nigenti pe le tervaie
but not 1S do nothing for the.OBL job.OBL
Jom'i sijotoalajiealecostedelui fiummi.
I1Smesitallthedayatthe.OBLside.OBLofthe.OBL river.OBL
Nunitiolatervaia!
not1Shavethejob!
B) Lords Prayer:
El par noç, che t’ e en lui ceu
the fatherour that 2S are in the heaven
Cheelnomitoasiasantificà
thatthenameyou3Sbe.sbjsantified
Cheelreiotoavia
thatthekingdomyour3Scome.sbj
Chelavolontètaasiafait
thatthewillyour3Sbe.sbjdone
Enleterresil'eagoa misimaen lui ceu
in the.OBLearthlike3Sisthis.timesamein the heaven
Dainoiujilopaipeaccostejie
give.2Pustodaythe.ACCbread.ACC forthis.OBL day
Pordoai lo nosciopoccatello
pardonthe.ACC.PLour.ACC.PLsins.ACC.PL
Sicomo noinepordoamolochecontra noiipoccà
likeas we1Ppardonthe.ACC.PLthatagainstus3Psin
Nunnilaisciaimigaenletintazoi
notuslead.2SnotintheOBLtempation.OBL
Mailivrainoidilomau
butdeliver.2Susfromthe.OBLevil.OBL
Perhaps I shall send more later.
-Elliott