The Missals Scratchpad
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2019 8:18 pm
Here's something I came up with suddenly this afternoon - yes, a Romlang nominal inflection table, how wonderful. Inspired by Romanian's suffixed article, of course. A word in each of the three genders is provided.
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The given IPA transcriptions represent each word pronounced in isolation (save for footnotes 2/3, see below). They are technically phonetic transcriptions, since phonemically nasalized vowels can be safely analyzed as the result of deletion of coda /n/ (which is consistent). Both coda /n/ and vocalized /l/ resurface in intervocalic position, e.g. lobul albul [lobul‿awbu] 'the white wolf' or lobun albun [lobũn‿awbũ] 'a white wolf'.
The definite and indefinite articles are wholly fused to the noun; the bare form of the noun is obsolete except as the vocative. The semantic distribution of the definite and indefinite is quite different from English; speakers always provide the definite singular as the citation form, except for proper names of humans and similar animates, which are cited in the vocative.
Notes:
1: The vocative is not really definite, but it is traditionally grouped with the definite in grammatical texts.
2: The nominative and accusative of the neuter singular feature a schwa that appears preconsonantally and triggers gemination of the following consonant, e.g. gwovule magnul [gwovuləm‿maɲu] 'the big egg'.
3: The "intrusive schwa" also appears on the dative of the neuter singular for some speakers, but this is considered nonstandard.
Also, here is a table showing those words around the late middle ages or the dawn of the early modern era, with spellings typical of the period. Variant case-forms are given. As you can see, the digraphs <ign> and <igl> for the palatal nasal and lateral were eventually simplified to <gn> in the modern era.
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![Image](https://i.imgur.com/4SeJfYX.png)
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/U0fZkT4.png)
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/k27Bf1r.png)
The given IPA transcriptions represent each word pronounced in isolation (save for footnotes 2/3, see below). They are technically phonetic transcriptions, since phonemically nasalized vowels can be safely analyzed as the result of deletion of coda /n/ (which is consistent). Both coda /n/ and vocalized /l/ resurface in intervocalic position, e.g. lobul albul [lobul‿awbu] 'the white wolf' or lobun albun [lobũn‿awbũ] 'a white wolf'.
The definite and indefinite articles are wholly fused to the noun; the bare form of the noun is obsolete except as the vocative. The semantic distribution of the definite and indefinite is quite different from English; speakers always provide the definite singular as the citation form, except for proper names of humans and similar animates, which are cited in the vocative.
Notes:
1: The vocative is not really definite, but it is traditionally grouped with the definite in grammatical texts.
2: The nominative and accusative of the neuter singular feature a schwa that appears preconsonantally and triggers gemination of the following consonant, e.g. gwovule magnul [gwovuləm‿maɲu] 'the big egg'.
3: The "intrusive schwa" also appears on the dative of the neuter singular for some speakers, but this is considered nonstandard.
Also, here is a table showing those words around the late middle ages or the dawn of the early modern era, with spellings typical of the period. Variant case-forms are given. As you can see, the digraphs <ign> and <igl> for the palatal nasal and lateral were eventually simplified to <gn> in the modern era.
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/lljb6cs.png)