Carpathian language: Difference between revisions

Carpathian has both qualitative and quantitative ablaut, inherited from Proto-Indo-European, but later extended to form new alternations. In most morphemes only two grades were represented, but some could have as many as five. Most of the reasons for the rise of vowel alternations were phonetic, connected to the prosody. On the other hand, the tendency to level out irregular or excess phonetic alternations resulted in simplifying the paradigms and eliminating the previous vowel alternations. In word derivation a certain percentage of words became obsolescent, fossilising some forms and making them obscure for ablaut. Numerous remnants of such former patterns exist in the language, for example: ''skalàndas'' “rod” – ''skōlangā'' “fence” – ''skèliaugas'' “osier” one may establish a pattern "a-ō-e", but there are no ē- or zero-forms, which either never existed or didn't survive. Such disconnected patterns exist solely as independent words, no new forms arise from that pattern. Different dialects may preserve different "parts" of the pattern: ''kalaušītei'' and ''kilūšītei'' “to listen”; ''bèberas'' and ''bàbaras'' “beaver”, ''iskùs'' and ''aiskùs'' “bright”.

===Nouns===

Most of the Proto-Indo-European declensional classes were retained in Carpathian with only the consonant-stem nouns being altered and reduced in number, since they no longer form a productive class. All nouns belong to one of the three accentuation classes, called acute-static ('''AS''') with a fixed acute accent on the first syllable, circumflex-static ('''CS''') with a fixed circumflex accent on the first or second syllable, and mobile ('''M''') with the accent shifting between initial and final syllables. Similar accent types exist for verbs.