Oh sorry, the encoding got messed up at some point. Here's the corrected link:
http://cbb.aveneca.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4938
Silvish is a Gallo-Romance-ish language spoken in the French Alps. It has maintained three grammatical cases, though no single noun distinguishes more than two. It also has innovated two genders — called "common" and "noble" — which overlap the inherited masculine and feminine; they are loosely based on animacy, so that all noble-gender nouns refer to humans but not all human nouns are noble-gender.
Let's see. Here are some other things:
- Silvish is strongly reminiscent of French, sound-wise, but stress is more salient.
- I haven't talked about it on my CBB thread, but morae play an important role in allophony and other phonological processes.
- The orthography is quite regular but also assumes a certain amount of native-speaker intuition.