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«Pǒrtet vìa al rósc?» - Will you take out the trash? I wanted to put this in the false cognates thread, but I couldn't verify the etymologies enough. In Finland Swedish, the word rosk is still used in the sense of 'trash' 🙂 I'd say let's put it there and let someone else do the dirty work to prove ...

I'll answer for what concerns my mother tongue, :ita: Italian, and my second pseudo-mother tongue, Emilian. In Emilia-Romagna we do have a tendency to use the equivalent of "yeah no" (i.e. sì no ) in some contexts, for example when the other person has expressed surprise towards something ...

Okay guys, it's been a while, and my next lesson isn't ready yet (sorry for taking so long, but I want to provide quality material this time), so I thought "why not post something about lexicon for once?" So here we are! LEXICON CARD 1 THE HUMAN BODY TĚSTA (f) - Head Cavî (m pl) - hair (pl...

Ah okay, then I've misunderstood this part on the object pronouns: All pronouns ending in -l behave a bit differently before a vowel: if the object is masculine singular, the /l/ sound is duplicated, and written just before the second word with an apostrophe dividing them (a+l (m) + ò = al l'ò); if...

Neat! So this is pretty much the same thing that happens with the object pronouns and the feminine singular article right? al -> al l' / ajj' I'm not sure which form in particular you refer to, but don't confuse a genuine geminate ( al and l both have pretty clear semantic meanings) with boundary g...

Well, guys, I made it. LESSON 7 BOUNDARY GEMINATION As you already know, Emilian roots (almost) never contain geminated consonants, unlike Italian and Latin ones. There are a few exceptions to this rule; for example when an unstressed vowel became syncopated at a certain stage it might have left two...

I just wanted to reply because next lesson will take a while to make. The -v you see in the -êv forms is due to the verbs being in their question form, which will indeed be the topic of the next lesson together with the negative form. I'm currently struggling to figure out a phonetic rule of utmost ...

Today, since Christmas is over, I thought I could write a Christmas-themed lesson [:D] CULTURE LESSON 1 AL NADÊL A VGNǑLA (Christmas in Vignola) Christmas is one of those things that can be quite different across the 20 regions of Italy, but invariantly revolves around food on the entire national te...

Don't worry people, I was just joking, and I have no intention to stop posting anyway [;)] I noticed that my o-carons get turned into some weird "oˇ" sequence on Chrome. Is it just me or does everybody see them like that? If so, I recommend switching to Firefox since it doesn't seem to hav...

No answer? [:(] I guess I will just post a new lesson and hope to get some more people interested [;)] LESSON 6 VERBS, SECOND PART Quick recap: Emilian has three main conjugations, i.e. the 1st (-êr), the 2nd (-er) and the 3rd (-îr). We already checked out 1st conjugation verbs; today, we're going t...

Alright guys, the wait has been long, but trust me, it was worth it in terms of quality. I've finally had the occasion to talk to my grandmother, who is a way better speaker than I am, and get you some quality material to put into our next lesson! LESSON 5 PERSONAL PRONOUNS, PART 2 Lesson 3 was abou...

This thread is sending waves of nostalgia coursing through my sinuses. [:D] Speaking of nostalgia, do you know the Italian movie Amarcord from Federico Fellini? Well, he was from Rimini, a city by the sea in Emilia-Romagna. The title of the movie itself is in Emilian (the proper spelling in Vignole...

Okay guys, so, first of all, I have two news. The bad news is I will be inactive for a while. The good news is that the reason for this is bringing quality to these lessons. I have been writing and rewriting the second lesson about personal pronouns, and I found out some obscure points that I don't ...

So, are you ready for the big one? LESSON 4 VERB CONJUGATIONS, PART 1 Now that we know something about personal pronouns, we are finally ready to learn about verbs! Emilian has three main verb conjugations, based on their infinitive ending: Verbs in -êr (sometimes -ěr); Verbs in -er (unstressed); Ve...

SG PL 1 mè nuêter/nuêtri 2 tè (v)uêter/(v)uêtri 3 ló/lě lǒr The use of noster / voster reflexes is super neat. It fits with illorum in the third-person plural. nuêter and vuêter do not come from noster and voster . They correspond to the Spanish nosotros/vosotros (we other/you other), that could be...

LESSON 3 INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL PRONOUNS I want to get talking about verbs as soon as possible, so that we can actually start building some sentences. But explaining verbs without knowing at least the bare minimum about personal pronouns would be impossible, so here we are! PERSONAL PRONOUN SETS ...

In my understanding, the sound change that happened here is /e/ → Ø in unstressed position, as it's not an uncommon sound change in Emilian (quite the contrary, we're going to have to deal with it a lot soon enough), and feminine plural has /e/ in Italian. However, this would not explain why Emilian...

Okay, let's get into the language some more! LESSON 2 NOUNS Nouns in Emilian are marked for gender and number. As in most Romance languages, they are not declined for case. This could be the right time to point out that much of the Emilian lexicon is of Latin origin, but there are many words, even v...

Thank you both for being part of this thread! If I remember correctly, you both used to follow the old thread as well. Keep spreading knowledge on the language and its status, it's important that we do all we can to prevent our "dialects" from dying off! So, first of all, thanks for pointi...

Okay, it took me way more than I would have expected, but here we are! LESSON 1 PHONETICS & SPELLING So, since you've read my overlong introduction, I would like to officially welcome you to my Emilian course! Our first lessons will be about the phonetics of the Emilian language which, as you wi...