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Re: [romconlang] Re: Introduction to myself and Pelsodian

Sort of, but the catalyst for their development was different. It has to do with the cases. Originally, nouns distinguished all three modern cases (nominative, accusative, oblique), but then most nouns lost the nominative and replaced it with the accusative forms; they would ultimately become the common gender. A group of human nouns lost the accusative instead and filled its role with the oblique; they would become noble gender. Through analogy, adjectives and articles began to distinguish the same cases as the nouns they modified, and thus the new declension classes became genders.

The core noble-gender nouns are based on the Modern French nouns that come from the Latin nominative rather than the accusative (prêtre, peintre, nonne, sire/monsieur, etc.). I haven't completely settled on how many other nouns get in yet, but a lot of words for the nobility do, hence the name.

Anyway, I should make a thread for Silvish, shouldn't I? this thread is originally for Pelsodian, after all. Lex, what fun facts can you tell us about Pelsodian?