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Finnish: Suo

Finnish: Minä rakastan sinua.

Fake old-style finnish is usually just modern finnish written with the orthography of Mikael Agricola who first developed an orthography for finnish language. What about using -vi in the third person singular, and, like -mahan instead of -maan ? Or is that fake Kalevala-style? And sometimes word "s...

Fake old-style finnish is usually just modern finnish written with the orthography of Mikael Agricola who first developed an orthography for finnish language. And sometimes word "se" (it) used as a definite article.

[Even so, I'd say no conlang can ever be as complete as a real language, because even when the words and grammar are set down, the connotations of each word, each syntactical decision, are only filled in by usage - so the poet would have a challenge writing formal poetry, but much of what makes poe...

Onligatory quote because ot the title of the thread:

"Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."

Sorry. I tried to resist.

I think we, in English, create a dummy singular noun to carry the concept of "ten dollars" when comparing amounts. It becomes a non-count noun, I guess. Or something like that. This happens at least in finnish. Ten dollars is more than five dollars. Kymmenen dollaria on enemmän kuin viisi dollaria....

CaesarVincens wrote:That's all to say, they could speak it (and learn it) as easily as anyone who speaks a "hideous" language.

I know, it was just a joke.

There are many controversial matters, and some differences in detail between reconstructions from different authors (and gsandi not always follows the majority opinion), and many things are left to be desired, for instance and up-to-date etymological dictionary. Also, PIE grammar is fiendishly comp...

There are many controversial matters, and some differences in detail between reconstructions from different authors (and gsandi not always follows the majority opinion), and many things are left to be desired, for instance and up-to-date etymological dictionary. Also, PIE grammar is fiendishly comp...

He doesn't like to be bothered, though. Consider yourself fortunate if Lord Sandi even grants you an audience. Ok now i'm scared. :D EDIT: I read his website, it's got a whole page about nominal morphology in PIE! :D Yes i know wikipedia has an article about it, but it has material from many differ...

Can anyone recommend any good resources for proto-indo-european grammar?