...in severe progress...

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Briefer:

Pronunciation: (Basically the reconstructed classical)

• Y as in French
• J as English Y
• B as P when following S or T
• C always hard
• G always hard
• H is silent before T, P, C, & R
• V may be as English V or English W
• AE as AI in English aisle
• OE as OI in English boil
• Accent is on the penult

Vocabulary:

• Most Latin nouns → ablative singular
• Latin nouns that appear only in the plural → accusative singular
• Plurals may be indicated by adding -s
• Pronouns: me, te, illo/illa/id; nos, vos, illos/illas; se, ipso
• Adjectives in -us/-a/-um → -o
• Adjectives in -is/-is/-e → -e
• Verbs → imperative
• Present participal: -nte
• Passive participal: -to
• Infinitive: -re (as Latin) (What about the irregulars?)

Some irregulars:

• esse → es
• posse → pote
• velle → vol
• fieri → fi

Pronouns:

• me, te, illo/illa/id
• nos, vos, illos/illas
• se, ipso
• ...

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Nouns:

Latin dictionary forms	Interlingua form	e.g.
-a, -ae	-a	agricola
-ae, -arum*	-a/-as	divitia/divitias
-us/-er/-um, -i	-o	amico
-i, -orum*	-os	liberos
-um, -orum*	-a	arma
any, -is	-e	duce
-es, -um*	-e/-es	majore/majores
-us, -us	-u	manu
any, -ei	-e	die

* Nouns that only appear in the plural in Latin

For a few words, the Latin nominative is used to avoid ambiguity with another word. e.g. male is mas.

Plural: add -s. The -s may be omitted when an adjective (or something else?) makes the number clear. There are no other inflections.

• The nominative is expressed by the noun preceeding the verb
• The genitive, by de
• The dative, by ad
• The accusative, by following the verb (or—for emphasis—before the subject)

Adjectives:

celeber, celebris, celebre: celebre

novus, nova, novum: novo

audax, audax, audax (audacis): audace (or is it audici?)

Comparison of adjectives:

• plus ~ quam → ~er than
• magis ~ quam → ~er than
• minus ~ quam → less ~ than
• multo ~ → very ~
• ultra ~ → very ~
• extra ~ → very ~
• maximo ~ → ~est
• minimo ~ → least ~
• tam ~ quam → as ~ as

Adverbs:

• change final vowel to -e
• cum mente adj
• cum adj mente
• in modo adj
• in adj modo
• in modo de noun

Verbs: drop -re.

Exceptions: dic, duc, es, fac, fer, vol

Syntax:

• Typical word order: subject verb object
• Emphasized word may be moved to the beginning of the sentence
• Adjectives tend to follow nouns
• Adverbs tend to follow verbs & precede adjectives
• Demonstrative and interrogative pronouns tend to precede; relative pronouns, to follow
• Prepositions tend to preceed, but may appear between a noun & its adjective
• Non preceeds the word it modifies; often the verb; may be first for emphasis

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Olim es tres urso. Es patre urso et madre urso et infante urso. Ursos habita in domo parvo in silva. Saepe illos ambula in silva dum cena de illos frigesce.

(Uno die?) puella parvo ambula in silva et inveni domo de ursos. Illa pulta (on ianua) sed nemine responde. Ita illa i in.

Into illa inveni tres poculo continente plute. Illa deliba ex poculo primo, sed id es multo calido. Illa tunc deliba ex poculo secundo, sed id es multo frigido. Illa tunc deliba ex poculo tertio, et id es recto. Ita illa ede omne.

Illa tunc inveni tres sede. Illa sede in sede primo, sed id es multo duro. Illa sede in sede secundo, sed id es multo molle. Illa tunc sede in sede tertio, et id es recto. Cum (/quando?) autem illa sede in id, id frange.

Illa tunc ascende ad cubiculo. Ibi illa inveni tres lecto. Illa cuba in lecto primo, sed id es multo duro. Illa cuba in lecto secundo, sed id es multo molle. Illa tunc lecto tertio, et id es recto. Ita illa dormi.

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My message to the moderator when joining the europeano Yahoo! group:

Me ama lingua Latino antiquo. Causa de Esperanto ad me place, sed Esperanto ad me non place. Ergo me puta Interlingua de Peano es bono.

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