Re: Wenedyk - Nouns

--- In conlang@y..., Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@Y...> wrote:

> I've had some difficulty in deciding whether or not to introduce a case system
> into Wenedyk. No surviving Romance language has cases (except perhaps for some
> traces in Romanian), but since Late/Vulgar Latin still had them (even if they
> were rapidly decaying) and the Slavic languages have always had them, I don't
> really see any reason why Wenedyk shouldn't have them.
Phew, I'm glad you did.  I've had quite a few doubts about keeping a
full case system in Jovian, and more than once have I had to resist
the urge to flatten it all into a two-case (NOM, ACC) or one-case
system.  Especially the clunky -n endings of the accusative bugged
me.  At least now I'm not alone with a full-house case system.  ;-)



> II.     hard stems              soft stems
>         dom "house"             an' "year"
>         sing.   plur.           sing.   plur.
> nom.    dom     domy            an'     ani
> gen.    domu    domór           aniu    aniór
> dat.    domi    domysz          ani     anisz
> acc.    dom     domy            an'     ani
Hmmmm... any specific reason you chose |-i| for the dative and |-u|
for the genitive?  Or is that a typo?  The Latin endings being -o
and -i respectively...

Anyway, you lang looks pleasantly czechesque and un-plain-vanilla-
romancish.  Mic plagi /miC "pla:gi/ < |Mihi placet|  (=D


-- Christian Thalmann

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