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Guiding Inspirations &al.

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	===Phonology===		===Phonology===

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==Guiding Inspirations &al.==
* French and its interesting colloquialisms and grammar
* German and its grammatical similarities to French
* Luxemburgish and its grammar, phonology and orthography
* Dutch
* English
* Italian
* und so weiter

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European

===Phonology===
* /r/ is probably flexible with a guttural pronunciation being prestigious in normal speech. /r/ after vowels can have reduced salience ''as a consonant''.
* A bunch of vowels - I need to check my phone for this.
* p b f v m t d (ts? dz?) s z l r n (č š (d)ž?) j k g (x? h?)

===Orthography===
* ch vs tch vs sch vs tsch vs j vs g vs tsch?
* VsV = /VzV/
* Double letters have a role; double vowels will be harder
* a ae e è é ê ei ie i ui ue u ou o ò ó ô oe ue oa ai au eu? úûùíìîï? äëö? e = /E/ and /ə/

===Grammar in General===
* Suppletion is dope.

===The Noun Phrase===
* Adjectives can go before and after the noun
* Articles come before the noun phrase
* Nouns may mark for male, female, and plural at least; but not necessarily on the noun
* Prepositions dominate
* There may or may not be a genitive -'s clitic, and gender/plurality marking may be neutralised for predicate adjectives (both are fairly Germanic though despite French's importance here).

===The Verb Phrase===
* The past tense is formed with "have + [verb past participle]"
* Most verb forms (including things like the future) use auxiliary verbs (the future should probably have a w/v- onset, cf. werden, will, vais)
:* There is ''still'' a series of directly inflected verbs though using suffixes just to show this stage existed at some point. Cf. French and German.
* Suppletive verbs are cool. vais vs allons
* Past participles are formed with -t
* Present participles are formed with -ant or -and; the jury is still out.

* There is at least a distinction between singular and plural verbs (currently thinking: -e and -on(s) as a compromise from -ons/-ez/-ent and -en?)

===Pronominal Problems===
* French has je moi me mons distinction; German has ich mich mir mein distinction. Still a lot of grammatical relics for both and the same number too, but with caveats...

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