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[[File:Sanakas.cwk (PT).jpg|thumb|"Sanakas" Upā-a pid âdi-ra???]] | [[File:Sanakas.cwk (PT).jpg|thumb|"Sanakas" Upā-a pid âdi-ra???]] | ||
'''Caryatic''' was dreamed up by [[User:Iustinus|Iustinus]] in between taking notes for [[wikipedia:Andrew Sihler|Andrew Sihler]]'s "Comparative Grammar: Indo-European Phonology," in fall of 1997. It was first committed to computer on Dec. 11 of that year. Work continued on and off until late 2003. The language remained largely dormant until 2013, when work resumed, albeit at an absurdly glacial pace. | '''Caryatic''' was dreamed up by [[User:Iustinus|Iustinus]] in between taking notes for [[wikipedia:Andrew Sihler|Andrew Sihler]]'s "Comparative Grammar: Indo-European Phonology," in fall of 1997. It was first committed to computer on Dec. 11 of that year. Work continued on and off until late 2003. The language remained largely dormant until 2013, when work resumed, albeit at an absurdly glacial pace. | ||
The language was never fully complete, and much has been lost. As a result, much of this article will be necessarily vague or uncertain. | |||
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The majority of adjectives decline like [[#o-stems|''o''-stems]] in the [[#Masculine|masculine]] and [[#Neuter|neuter]], and like [[#eH.E2.82.82-stems|''eH₂''-stems]] in the feminine. The feminine stem is often irregular, or rather slightly different from the masculine and neuter stem. Note that even when the feminine form appears to have arisen historically from a ''devī''-stem, the final ''-ā'' is still long (e.g. ''kās'', ''kānt'', ''kānkā''—not, as one might expect, ''*kānkă''.) | |||
None of the adjectives in my original file appear to decline as [[#consonant and i-stems|consonant stems]], or any other paradigm. It is unknown if this is a general feature of the language, or if I simply never got to designing any consonant-stem adjectives. But it seems that even nouns derived from present participles (e.g. ''isās'', ''isāntah'' "being") decline as ''o''-stems. | |||
=== Pronouns === | === Pronouns === | ||