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Re: A grammar of Friulian

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Thursday, December 27, 2001, 0:25
Taking a look at it, it has a table of possessive pronouns. The table
includes plural and singular versions of my, your (sing.), his/her/its,
our, your (pl) and their. What is the difference b/n plural `my' and
`our'? or `my' and sing. `our'?

Tristan

anstouh@yahoo.com.au

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> When checking (I do that regularly), the page: > http://yourdictionary.com/grammars.html (an extraordinary resource of web- > grammars of languages all over the world, regularly updated), I found a grammar > of Friulian (the first page about Friulian I could find in English): > http://www.eirelink.com/alanking/modals/documents/do-g-frl.htm. > > AFAIK, Friulian is a Romance language, of the Rumantsh subgroup (one of the > Romance languages spoken in Switserland IIRC). I think it's an extremely > interesting grammar to look at, because this Romance language is like no > other :)) . It keeps length distinctions in stressed syllables, and marks > subject agreement on the verb not only by verbal endings but also by mandatory > clitics (exactly like Spoken French, but the written language follows this rule > too), which disappear only in some precise environments. Another interesting > feature is that the digraphs 'cj' and 'gj' mark palatal stops! (though they are > simple affricates in some dialects) > > Anyway, look at it, I think it's quite interesting. > > Christophe. > > http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr > > Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role. >

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