Triparic Grammar

This is all a draft.

In March 2016 we're cleaning up the language yet again. This time for sure. Presto!

Nouns

Gender

Nouns have no grammatical gender.

Plural

Nouns form their plurals in -s (-es if the singular ends in s, z, x, or sz):

menszes "men" mädins "young women"

Articles and Genitive

We're not sure. Currently der (sing) and les (plur), but I prefer they not look like they came from two different languages. Carrie suggested del/des; Shawn thinks maybe der/des but del is also kinda cool.

Of course, "of" is a problem. If we do Germanic articles, then the genitive needs to be -s, perhaps with an apostrophe, like English. If we do Romance (l-) articles, then d- l- phrases and even contractions like French/Spanish/Italian are options.

Adjectives

Adjectives usually precede the nouns they modify, but are rarely placed afterwards, for effect:

gute morgen "good morning"
alta rol "high office"
but tempos conects "contiguous times"

Most adjectives form their comparatives and superlatives with the adverbs ply "more" and plä "most":

ply alta "higher" plä lange "longest"

Adjectives agree with their nouns in number:

tempos conects "contiguous times" duväds miăs "black cats"

Note that some adjectives are plural only:

alle mensches "all men"

Some adjectives have irregular comparative and superlative forms:

gute, besser, ...

... but should they??

Pronouns

		Nominative	Objective	Possessive
1. Sing.		ego	me	me
2. Sing.		dză	dzi	dzæ
3. Sing.	Masculine	erre	ri	ris
	Feminine	esse	szi	szir
	Epicene	ex	ex	exes
	Neuter	idde	id	ids
1. Plur.		wå	nos	ăr
2. Plur.		vø	vos	vor
3. Plur.		lø	los	lor