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Around 1300 Irtan Parisian French started evolving very rapidly, around the fifteenth century it had a similar aesthetic to our timeline's Modern French. Around the seventeenth century there was another huge series of sound shifts (including a chain shift l -> r -> h, vowel shifts and Havlik's law) as well as grammatical shifts due to the loss of prestige of Literary French in Irta. Today's Hyperfrench is a quasi-polysynthetic language with clitic complexes and bipersonal agreement, very unusual for Indo-European. | Around 1300 Irtan Parisian French started evolving very rapidly, around the fifteenth century it had a similar aesthetic to our timeline's Modern French. Around the seventeenth century there was another huge series of sound shifts (including a chain shift l -> r -> h, vowel shifts and Havlik's law) as well as grammatical shifts due to the loss of prestige of Literary French in Irta. Today's Hyperfrench is a quasi-polysynthetic language with clitic complexes and bipersonal agreement, very unusual for Indo-European. | ||
Modern Hyperfrench has lots of loans from Irish and English, the latter including many reborrowed Old French words. | Modern Hyperfrench has lots of loans from Irish, Brythonic, Riphic and English, the latter including many reborrowed Old French words. | ||
==Phonology== | |||
Hyperfrench is unique among IE languages outside India for having a four-way phonation distinction in stops (both voicing and aspiration are contrastive). Otherwise its phonology is Standard Average European. | |||
The sound /l/, curiously, does not appear in native words in Hyperfrench, having been entirely replaced by /r/. /l/ does show up in loanwords, though. | |||
==Numbers== | ==Numbers== | ||
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Noun gender in Hyperfrench is vestigial. Adjective agreement disappeared except in very specific instances which are analyzed by modern Hyperfrench grammarians as remnants of univerbation rather than agreement. | Noun gender in Hyperfrench is vestigial. Adjective agreement disappeared except in very specific instances which are analyzed by modern Hyperfrench grammarians as remnants of univerbation rather than agreement. | ||
A few adjectives display alternations that etymologically derive from gender but because of Riphic substrate influence they evolved into an attributive vs predicative distinction: '' | A few adjectives display alternations that etymologically derive from gender but because of Riphic substrate influence they evolved into an attributive vs predicative distinction: ''s vati nyvier'' "the new car" vs ''s vati ie nyvo'' "the car is new", somewhat like in German. | ||
==Pronouns== | ==Pronouns== | ||
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2pl: vy, devy | 2pl: vy, devy | ||
== Syntax == | |||
More satellite-framed than French as we know it (because of Irish and English) | |||