Re: Romlang Experiment

Quoting Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:

> Stress is distributed as in Latin, except where marked otherwise by a
> grave or a circumflex accent.  A vowel is considered long when it's
> stressed and in an open syllable, or marked with a circumflex accent.
Wouldn't it be the other way around? Stress is usually considered
to be superimposed after any considerations of underlying length
have been considered. (If the language is length sensitive, that is.
Some languages do not have length sensitive stress systems.)

> Noun declinations are reduced to three types.  Nominative forms can be
> irregular, and irregular nominative plurals ending -s can cause the
> same irregularities in accusative plurals, but apart from that all
> other cases are built regularly.
>
> Ia.  doemu "master": doemu, doemen, doemo, doemi; doemi, doemos,
>      doemis, doemon.
>      pulger "pretty": pulger, pulren, pulro, pulri; pulri, pulros,
>      pulris, pulron.
> Ib.  caelen "sky": caelen, caelen, caelo, caeli; caela, caelos,
> caelis,
>      caelon.
>      auer "gold": auer, auren, auro, auri; aura, auros, auris, auron.
>      Notice how even the neuter nouns form the accusative plural with
>      -os.
> II.  cena "dinner": cena, cenan, cenae, cenae; cenae, cenas, cenis,
>      cenon.
> III. genner "gender": genner, genren, genri, genris; genners, genners,
>      genrys, genron.
Wouldn't one likely see an epenthetic stop like that that actually
showed up in romance languages? Ergo: genner, gendren, gendri, gendris...

> That's all I have so far... any comments?  (Apart from "it looks too
> much like Germanech" ;-)
Yeah, I like it. I like how you presented the diachronic changes,
and those changes all seem reasonable.

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