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These are written as separate words, but grammatically often act almost as cases for the words after them and most speakers blur the distinction of words. Words which begin with vowels following these are often pronounced with with a "h" sound preceding them or "n" in the case of possessives. Only the "n" is written however. | These are written as separate words, but grammatically often act almost as cases for the words after them and most speakers blur the distinction of words. Words which begin with vowels following these are often pronounced with with a "h" sound preceding them or "n" in the case of possessives. Only the "n" is written however. | ||
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''Temag'hôrh du perygwyn ât gwêr ugwôn.'' | ''Temag'hôrh du perygwyn ât gwêr ugwôn.'' | ||
==Jury is Out, PLease leave a Message== | |||
===Replace "Go", make an exception for "She" or ignore a sound change law=== | |||
Currently, Go [Lé in Fén] is translated as "Lhô" this was originally an accident due to applying the sound change incorrectly or multiple times [é->e(->)a->ô ]. The issue is that this should be "Le" which is also the feminine form of "Lho" or "he". Currently, I'm cheating but I may add in a completely new morpheme for travelling that is less used in Fén [perhaps "Walk" or some slightly less relevant word] but popular in Cwengâr. | |||
===Should the last consonant of nouns have to agree with the word afterwards?== | |||
Final consonant agreement is stolen from Breton, which I thought was interesting. Right now, it serves to help emphasize gender. This would be particularly useful if each noun phase was treated as a single unit thus; | |||
focw merygw ta ty. | |||
The noun "fogw" agrees with the feminine subject ["me-"] by becoming unvoiced ["focw"] | |||
However, the ending of merygw [sheep] which is masculine remains so, despite the next word starting with an unvoiced "t" [-gw remains -gw]. | |||
If harmony is maintained it should be; | |||
focw mery'''cw''' ta ty. | |||
This has a definite grammatical function but I'm uncertain if this destroys a harmony. It doesn't seem to serve any grammatical function necessarily in Breton, other than perhaps emphasizing some mutations while retaining the harmony. So I'm stuck between grammar rules and harmony here. Hard call. | |||
===Pronouns following prepositions conjugate the preceding term=== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; vertical-align:middle; width:450px;" | |||
! width="30%"|Person | |||
!width="30%"|Masc | |||
! width="40%"|Fem | |||
|- | |||
|1S | |||
| -d | |||
| -t | |||
|- | |||
|2S | |||
| -rh | |||
| -r | |||
|- | |||
|3S | |||
| -lh | |||
| -l | |||
|- | |||
|1P | |||
| -s | |||
| -sh | |||
|- | |||
|2P | |||
| -rhà | |||
| -ra | |||
|- | |||
|3P | |||
| -lhà | |||
| -la | |||
|} | |||
Example; | |||
I [fem] gave it [fem] to you [masc]. | |||
Temelâr ty ât dàrh. | |||
This obviously would only have use with prepositions ending with vowels. | |||
This may be too openly derivative of Celtic languages but I'm hesistant to turn down possible means of laziness which seems like a pretty natural possible development. It may be dialectical. | |||
I may insert an inanimate case "-g" based off of "ígal" since "ât/d" would be identical to 1st person. 3rd person for it might be acceptable as in the Celtic languages but seems odd to me as "ât/d" would usually be used instead for the noun. | |||
===Pronouns=== | |||
I may consider including further pronouns, esp. incl. v. excl. "we" since the current form is too indo-european for my liking. | |||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||