Hyperfrench

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Hyperfrench (rug Fusieznyvier, literally "Modern French") is a language of Irta's France. It is notable for being the least conservative Indo-European language in Irta, grammatically.

Timeline

Around 1300 Parisian French started evolving very rapidly, around the fifteenth century it had a similar aesthetic to our 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.

Numbers

resier, redi, rethva, rekath, resiak, resis, resiet, revyt, renief, redis

rezuz, redyz, rethvasidis, rekasidis, resiaksidis, residis, resietsidis, revytsidis, reniefsidis, revia (rethiez, rekatoz, and rekiaz are old words for 13, 14 and 15)

Nouns

Hyperfrench completely lost pluralization, due to unpredictable/koineized sound changes involving yers and analogy.

Pronouns

nom, gen

1sg: ma, nema

2sg: tva, detva

1pl: u, du

2pl: vy, devy