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ObsequiousNewt wrote:No ablaut?

Oh, there is in some verbs' perfect stems, and I think their futures. But it isn't actively productive.

The Perfect System So at this point we should do the perfect. (I should actually do the future, too...but that can wait.) As in the rest of Italo-Celtic, what I call the "perfect" is really a mishmash of the PIE aorist and perfect systems, and essentially signifies a perfective-ish aspect. The perf...

the last one was started 2 and a half years ago so i think we need a new one. fill it in, with as much as you're comfortable giving away on a publically accessible website (ie, you don't need to fill in every section). Basics Username: FearfulJesuit, but known universally as dhok Name: Campbell Oth...

Yeah. I'll go back and edit those sections you mentioned. Also...Perón is a Spanish name, not a Portuguese one. The Portuguese cognate would probably be something like Perão . I (personally) have a bit of a problem with /o e/ vs. /ɔ ɛ/ before coda /r/, because my instinct as an English speaker is to...

How are the plural suffix -as and the article as pronounced in this dialect you're teaching? [ɐs]? Yep. Unstressed /a/ is [ɐ]. These are phonemic in Portugal and I think in a couple Brazilian dialects, but not where I lived. (And in any case, even if I talked to somebody from Portugal or elsewhere ...

Lesson II (Estar; um/uma; possession and possessive adjectives; bom and mau; use of em ; -ar verbs; nouns ending in -e) So hopefully from now on I should be able to write some actual exercises that are not horrible. We'll see. Estar As I mentioned in the first lesson, Portuguese has two verbs for E...

Key to Lesson 1 Exercise I (transcription practice) [ˈkanɐ] [pãw] [koɾɐˈsãw] [esˈtajs] [vɔs] [ew] OR [ɛw] (either was acceptable; in actuality it's [ew], but I can barely hear the difference and you can't tell from the spelling anyways) [ˈkwãdu] [seˈɾa] [huˈɾaw] [ˈtʃipu] (if you wrote [ˈtipu] slap ...

American, age 18. I spent some time in Brazil last year, so I speak nearly fluent Portuguese, with the occasional error. I'm learning Russian, Latin and Farsi and might add Norwegian or Finnish to that sooner or later. My accent is northwestern US, except for my /æ/, which is a monophthong as in Bri...

Moving on for the second part of lesson I. Nouns For those of you who have studied another big Romance language, this should be old hat. Nouns have two genders (masculine and feminine), two numbers (singular and plural), and no cases. Articles and adjectives have to agree with the noun. Now, for man...

So...who would be interested in this? Hopefully I'd be able to run this idea out to at least ten or a dozen lessons, maybe even more. It's really sort of a proof-of-concept for a line of language courses a friend and I thought up while drunk. It will almost certainly never see the light of day, but ...

A quick side-tour to the imperative. Here are the present imperative active forms. Note that the imperative has its own peculiar stress pattern; therefore ριγκήσε and βήρεσε conjugate the same way. (Some rhizotonics have special imperative stems in this case; βήηεσε conjugates βεηή βεηήταν βεηετή.) ...

The Passive Voice As in Italic, Celtic or Tocharian, the Lusitanic passive derives from the PIE r-passive. The passive is formed the same way as the active, basically, but with different endings. Only the forms of θυμώσε need be presented. Present Indicative Passive S D P 1 dʰūmā́h₂r dʰūmā́wor dʰūm...

Me sans glasses, which had too much glare. Contrary to the picture, I have blue-green eyes, not...whatever that shade is.

I need a haircut.

Ah, jo veig ara- és en la biblioteca de correspondència.

k → Ø / V_{i,e}

Ahh...així, el c va desaparèixer entre vocals? O abans les vocals del front?

Izambri, perquè el cognat de espanyol hacer, portugués fazer, etc., é fer i no facer o alguna cosa similar? Què va succeir al c?

I have an unfinished text file floating somewhere around in my Documents folder with changes from PIE to Sanskrit. In the meantime, please enjoy this short, incomplete, and scattered list of changes from Latin to Sardinian. This is far from exhaustive and often mixes dialects, but there isn't a whol...

Do you have anything on proto-Dardic?

I've decided to form an infinitive, then, from *-se. Verbal Paradigms So right now, before we go further, we need to dig into the principle part system. There are five principle parts (at least for now): a) Present Indicative Active, third person singular. b) Present Infinitive Active. c) Future Ind...

Verbs Fuckin' finally. So, just like Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, etc., Lusitanic has a fairly complex verbal system with a full array of tenses and moods. This is going to take some thinking through, but here's what has already been decided by Lusitanic's position within the family tree: -The perfect a...

Viktor77 wrote:Bowling Green for example offers an MA in Romance Languages with a focus in French, Spanish, German or any combination of 2 of those languages.

does it now

Viktor, for god's sake, just find a quick one- or two-year education program, get your education degree, and become a high school French/Spanish teacher.

Thanks, Bristel! Yep, more is definitely coming down the pipe. Adjectival Declension OK, so I'm posting this section mainly for the sake of completeness before we move on to verbs (because the paradigms are not very interesting), and also because I should do something about the numerals, and this is...

Very interesting looking. I noticed that you use ψ in ναψ, but it isn't listed in the orthography. I'm assuming it's pronounced like it's Greek counterpart? Also, I noticed that η is used for both /ɛ/ and /h/. Is there any definite way to tell the uses apart, like if η is before a vowel, it's /h/, ...

OK, great, it looks like things are going pretty well. I have updated the dual of ā-stem feminines (though not the prehistory- I'll go back and do it at some point but right now I can't be assed). Some new pronouns tonight, and then I'll try to do the adjectives (which just have recycled noun ending...