Re: Dalmatian grammar, an outline

Christophe Grandsire [ happy belated birthday, btw :-) ] wrote:

> > Possession is shown by the construction da + pers.prn,
> > e.g. baca da go (my cow), matru da tu (your mother).
> Well, my Reman doesn't feel lonely anymore :) . Until now, I
> think it was the only Romance language to have no possessive
> adjectives [ ... ]
My Seimi isn't Romance but rather Saami/Gaelic/a priori, but
it doesn't use possessives either. Examples:

mà      mis donn    [ma: mIs dVn]
kingdom GEN 2SG
'your kingdom'

isae   mis mae      ['ISaj mIs maj]
father GEN 1PL
'our father'

Apparently, though, there were possessive pronouns at an
earlier stage of the language. The archaic version of "Our
father" begins _isae minn_ 'father our'.

daniel

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