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How might one go about making a language with a PIE-like ablaut system derived from a language with triconsonantal roots?

Would anyone be interested in taking over this project for me? I have found that it is very time consuming to be world-building and conlanging this much while still trying to balance my time with school. Anyone interested? Here is the current vote count for this series of questions. 38) Should we ac...

Well, I was thinking of something more like a partnership and not being a vassal, but I have no idea how the Danes could accept such a proposal. Maybe we could tell the Danes that we will assist them in conquering the land of other nearby nations. Our armies could work together, and maybe we could ...

How about if we send an offering to the Vikings as a sign of wanting peace?

36) Should we offer the King’s daughter to the King of Wessex to form a dynastic union and possibly strengthen our alliance? (Still working out the names). We will accept the marriage offer. 37) We have fast-forwarded about 200 years to the time of King Alfred of Kent (Alfred the Great in our timel...

36. a, as long as Wessex doesn't object to us taking over Sussex (the Fishbourne palace is there, which would make a very good cultural capital for a Romano-British kingdom.) If Wessex refuses to keep their noses out of Sussex, we refuse. Alfred the Great was from the House of Wessex. Kent had been...

mèþru wrote:I assumed that the kingdom would be based off of this, covering at least London and Colchester:

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We could make it so that in this timeline, they have control of Essex too and have cornered Kent.

The borders have remained stationary and are basically the same as this map except that Mercia and North Wales are part of Britannia, and West Wales is part of Wessex.

35) Should Proto-Britainese retain the four noun cases of Vulgar Latin? We will keep the Nominative and Genitive, but have the Accusative and Dative cases merge into an Oblique case. There was a two-way tie between d and g. 36) It is currently AD 630 and the Bernicians have been successfully fended...

The orthography for Proto-Britainese is complete! /m n ɲ/ - <m n ni> /p b t d k g/ - <p b t d c~qu g~gu> /tʃ dʒ/ - <ce~c g~ge> /f v s z ʃ h/ - <f v s~ss s sc h> /r l ʎ j w/ - <r l gli~cli~li i u> /i y u e o ɛ ɔ a/ - <i ui~oi~ói u e o é ó a> /iu eo ɛa/ - <iu eu ea> 31) Will Proto-Britainese have “do...

The results are in! 28) The only thing we need to complete the orthography is finding out how to write /y/. How should we write it? The vowel /y/ will be written as <ui>, <oi>, and <ói> based on etymology but loanwords will have it as <ui>. There was a two way tie between a and c. 29) How should the...

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24) How should the consonant /ʎ/ be written? /ʎ/ - <gli~cli~li> (based on etymology) 25) How should the vowels be written? /i u e o ɛ ɔ a/ - <i u e o é ó a> (There was a three-way tie, each with 1 vote) 26) How should the diphthongs be written? /iu eo ɛa/ - <iu eu ea> (There was a four-way tie, eac...

Sure! I don't have the grammar fleshed out, so this is basically just me applying its sound changes and rearranging words to make the grammar more Romance-like, but it should give a good idea of what Proto-Britainese looks like. Now we just need to figure out the orthography and flesh out the gramma...

My mistake, I'll add your proposal now.

18) What should the name of our country be in English? Our country will be called Britannia. 19) How should the vowel /y/ evolve in our language? The back vowels undergo an umlaut where /u o ɔ a/ > /y e ɛ ɛ/ and there will be a diphthong shift of /ɔi oi ui/ > /y/ and /au ɔu ou/ > /u/ 20) These last...

Yes. I said "Creoda's son Pybba" and "Pybba's son Penda". It was merely a dynastic union, and Pybba is four years older than Ēadgȳþ, therefore, Pybba would have been the heir to Mercia's throne, but he died so the title would go to his son Penda but, Ēadgȳþ was the only other child of Creoda, and du...

The results are in and the ties have been broken thanks to random.org. 13) What will be the outcome of the Present, Imperfect, Perfect, and Pluperfect tenses of Latin in the Indicative mood? The Present and Imperfect tenses will be retained, the Perfect tense will become a Preterite tense, and the P...

Since votes end in 30 minutes, and there are three ties, it is apparent that there will need to be a tie-breaker. If there are no more votes by November 9 at 00:45 UTC, the ties will be broken via a random number generator on random.org. Each letter involved will be given a number (first option - 1,...

9) What sound changes will happen to vowels in open syllables? The vowels /i e ɛ/ will become /iu eo ɛa/ in open syllables. The other vowels will not change in this environment. 10) What happens to the proto-Romance diphthong /aw/? The diphthong /aw/ will become /ɔ/. 11) What is the outcome of /mn/...

That's a cool proposal! I'll add it now!

5) What are the outcomes of /tʲ dʲ kʲ gʲ/? The phonemes /tʲ kʲ/ merge into /t͡ʃ/, and /dʲ gʲ/ become /d͡ʒ/. 6) Will Britainese retain the consonant clusters /mn kn gn nj pl bl tl dl kl gl lj/? If not, what will happen to them? The clusters /mn kn gn/ will become /mn/, /pl bl tl dl kl gl lj/ become ...

mèþru wrote:6. c. /pl bl/ > /bl/, while /tl dl kl ɡl lj/ > /ʎ/ except for when /k/ derives from /kʷ/. In that case, /kl/ > /ɡl/

I like that proposal! Very interesting! I've added it to the list of options.

Results: 1) Will we be following the Spezia-Rimini line ? This language will be a Western Romance language. The third option (No) was meant to be in case we wanted to make a new branch of Romance that probably would have been a hypothetical North Romance. Kind of like how Sardinian doesn't fall int...

Let's make a collab language! How it works is that all aspects of the language will be voted on, and there might be a little history-building involved. For this collab, we'll be making a Romance language descended from British Latin. Any proposals made for any questions will be added as an extra opt...