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Thank you for your comments! Comments: I doubt I could help you. Unless encouragement counts as help. 'Cause I can say "Way to go!" Of course, encouragement always motivates me and I really need motivation for this! [:P] This is a great idea! I'll try and give some more detailed comments l...

shimobaatar wrote:Did the deletion of a consonant result in the diphthong?

shimobaatar wrote:Was it a long vowel?

Sorry for the late reply, I hoped for a second question so I could answer two in one post.

I always said to myself that if I ever create languages and cultures for a conworld, I want the conworld to be a mirrored earth, nothing more. This saves time (for me as a perfectionist without motivation) because I would spend ages creating the continents and I only have to worry about the climate ...

Was /oi̯/ a diphthong in Latin? [cross] "come from" as in "was there a consonant there in Latin"? I don't meant to sound rude, but what else did you think I could have meant? In any case, you answered the question I was asking. It was clear what you meant. The you in "Depen...

Depends on how you define "come from". It wasn't there in the beginning so I guess it had to come from somwhere. However, there was no /C/ > /i̯/ so I'll say for now?

qwed117 wrote:Does ç come from a ti sequence in Latin?
(Also, does anhó come from -ānus?)

Sure, I don't have a good word in my abondoned romlang either so here's a more simple one I'd say!

roiçanhó
/roi̯.s̪aˈɳo/

Але́ sі́ва вобстоя́!
Aljé dzjíva vobstojá!
but wonder-PL exist-3PL
But miracles exist!

I'm happy to see that the other two guessing games are running again, but I'd love to see this one return as well. So if we have to only guess between these three words now (because that seems to be the problem here?), I'm just gonna guess it's necrophilia.

Does anyone know of a detailed summary on Slavic syntax (preferably Serbo-Croation, Slavic, Ukrainian and Proto-Slavic/OCS, but anything will do I think)? I only found basic summaries that didn't go in further detail concerning adverbial placement, more complicated sentences etc.

The sun always stands above us. ~ "The sun is always there." Не сві́ці лi Qwed зядл-е е́го. [:P] Nje svjícji lji Qwed zjadl-je jého. NEG shine-3SG if Qwed PRF-ate-be.3SG.PRS N.SG.ACC She's not shining if Qwed ate her. The next total eclipse in Central Europe will only occur when everyone ...

qwed117 wrote:Yo mënźoł soleasu.
I will be eating the sun

Са́ўнцэ азда́ не свіці́ці бэ́де ра́но.
Sáunce azdá nje svjicjícji bédje ráno.
sun probably NEG shine-INF be.FUT-3SG tomorrow
The sun probably won't be shining tomorrow.

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