Round Robin Romlang

The Round Robin Romlang is a collaborative conlang founded by Kenner Gordon, inspired by the Round Robin Conlang. In the Round Robin Romlang, participants take turns adding sound changes to be applied to Latin.

More Specific Rules

Each participant takes turns adding a sound change, in the order of the Current Participants list below. No turns may be taken unless there are at least four current participants.

Participants

Current Participants

• Kenner Gordon
• Shair Ahmed
• Kelvin Jackson
• Peter Bleackley
• Calculator Ftvb

It is Kenner Gordon's turn.

Possible Participants

These people have displayed interest, but ambiguously; they may or may not actually wish to join.

• Karen Badham
• Benct Philip Jonsson

Former Participants

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Sound Changes

Each of the "stages" below represents a full round, except the first, which is a group of sound changes from Classical Latin to approximate Vulgar Latin.

Stage 1

• a: > a
• e > ɛ
• e: > e
• i > e
• i: > i
• o > ɔ
• o: > o
• u > o
• u: > u
• y > i
• y: > i
• ai > ɛ
• oi > e
• n > Ø / _(f,v,s)
• h > Ø
• w > β
• b > β / V_(V,r)
• m > Ø / _#
• m > n / in certain monosyllabic words
• (e,i) > j / _V
• u > w / _V
• VV > V
• V > ˈV / ˈ(i,e)_
• V > ˈV / _C*ˈuV

Stage 2

• [fricative] > Ø / V_V
• n > r / V_V
• g > ɣ / V_(V, r)
• s(p,t,k) > (b,d,g)

Stage 3

• (k,g) > (ʧ,ʤ) / _(front vowel)
• s > h / #_V
• u > ʉ
• a > æ / _[+anterior]
• e > ɞ

Stage 4

• i > ʉ
• ɛ > æ
• [single stop] > [fricative] / (V, r, l)_V
• β > h / _(unstressed vowel)
• l > λ

Stage 5

• j > λ
• (kw, gw) > (p, b)
• o > u
• (ˈʉ,ˈɞ) > (ˈy,ˈœ)
• u > ɯ

Stage 6

• a > ɑ / #_
• ɣ > v
• ɔ > ɤ
• (ʉ,ɞ,a) >∅ / _[+sonorant]
• λ > ʎ̥˔

Stage 7

• s > Ø / _#
• [alveolar]r > [retroflex]
• [geminate consonant] > [single consonant]
• (y,œ) > (i,ɛ) / [-labial]_[-labial]
• r > ʟ

Stage 8

• ʟ > l
• h > ħ / _a
• h > ç / _[front vowel]
• (ʉ,ɞ) > (u, ɔ)
• ɑ > ɒ

Stage 9

• l > λ > ʎ̥˔

Proposals

Perhaps we could allow people to do grammatical changes (i.e. "Syntax changes to V2", "Nominative becomes ergative and accusative becomes absolutive", etc.) instead of sound changes if they wish. DCliche 23:56, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

I've taken the liberty of posting conjugation and declension tables so that we may see what peoposed grammatical changes may be based on. Kicgan Vekei 17:10, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Based on what the sounds changes have produced, I think these changes, at the very least, have happened:

• Elimination of ablative case in both nouns and pronouns
• Elimination of accusative case in nouns, but keeping it in pronouns
• Merging dative case with genitive in nouns
• Merging ɛ, æa, ɛd with ɛk, æk, ɤk

What think ye? Kicgan Vekei 19:36, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Declension

	pɯæʎa girl f.
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pɯæʎa	pɯæʎæ
Genitive	pɯæʎæ	pɯæʎalɯ
Dative	pɯæʎæ	pɯæʎi
Accusative	pɯæʎa	pɯæʎa
Ablative	pɯæʎa	pɯæʎy
Vocative	pɯæʎa	pɯæʎæ

	kampɯ field m.
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kampɯ	kampi
Genitive	kampi	kampɯlɯ
Dative	kampɯ	kampi
Accusative	kampɯ	kampɯ
Ablative	kampɯ	kampi
Vocative	kampæ	kampi

	læk, lævɛ king m.
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	læk	lævɛ
Genitive	lævɛ	lævɯ
Dative	lævi	lævɛhɯ
Accusative	lævɛ	lævɛ
Ablative	lævæ	lævɛhɯ
Vocative	læk	lævɛ

	maro hand f.
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	marɯ	mari
Genitive	mari	manhɯ
Dative	marɯi	marɛhɯ
Accusative	marɯ	mari
Ablative	mari	marɛhɯ
Vocative	manɯ	mani

	lɛ thing f.
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lɛ	lɛ
Genitive	læi	lɛlɯ
Dative	læi	lɛhɯ
Accusative	lɛn	lɛ
Ablative	lɛ	lɛhɯ
Vocative	lɛ	lɛ

	First Person		Second Person
	ɛvɤ I m. and f.	nɯ we m. and f.	ty thou m. and f.	βɯ ye m. and f.
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ɛvɤ	nɯ	ti	βɯ
Genitive	mæi	nɤsʈɯ	tɯi	βesʈɯ
Dative	mi	nɯçi	tɛçɛ	βɯçi
Accusative	mɛ	nɯ	tɛ	βɯ
Ablative	mɛ	nɯçi	tɛ	βɯçi
Vocative	——	——	ti	βɯ

	ɛ he, they m.		æa she, they f.		ɛd it, they n.
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ɛ	ɛi	æa	ææ	ɛd	æa
Genitive	æʎɯ	æɯlɯ	æʎɯ	æalɯ	æʎɯ	æɯlɯ
Dative	æi	æi	æi	æi	æi	æi
Accusative	æɯ	æɯ	æa	æa	ɛd	æa
Vocative	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ablative	æɯ	æi	æa	æi	æɯ	æi

	—, hɯi himself, herself itself, oneself, themselves
Nominative	—
Genitive	hɯi
Dative	çɛçɛ
Accusative	çɛ
Vocative	-
Ablative	çɛ

	pæ who? m. and f.	pæd what? n. only
	Singular
Nominative	pæ	pæd
Genitive	kiʎɯ	kiʎɯ
Dative	kɯæ	kɯæ
Accusative	pɛn	pæd
Vocative	-	-
Ablative	pɯ	pɯ

	ɛk, æk, ɤk this, this one						ɛʎɛ, ɛʎa, ɛʎɯd that, that one
	Masculine		Feminine		Neuter		Masculine		Feminine		Neuter
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ek	i	æk	æ	ɤk	æk	ɛʎɛ	ɛʎi	ɛʎa	eʎæ	ɛʎɯd	ɛʎa
Genitive	ɯʎɯ	ɯlɯ	ɯʎɯ	ɑʎɯ	ɯʎɯ	ɯʎɯ	ɛʎiɯ	eʎɯlɯ	ɛʎiɯ	eʎalɯ	ɛʎiɯ	eʎɯlɯ
Dative	ɯɛk	i	ɯɛk	i	ɯɛk	i	ɛʎi	ɛʎi	ɛʎi	ɛʎi	ɛʎi	ɛʎi
Accusative	ɯnk	ɯ	ɑnk	ɑ	ɤk	æk	eʎɯ	eʎɯ	eʎa	aʎa	aʎɯd	eʎa
Vocative	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ablative	ɯk	i	ɑk	i	ɯk	i	eʎɯ	ɛʎi	eʎa	ɛʎi	eʎɯ	ɛʎi

Relative pronouns

	pi, pæ, pɯd who, which, that
	Masculine		Feminine		Neuter
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pi	pi	pæ	pæ	pɯd	pæ
Genitive	kiʎɯ	pɯlɯ	kiʎɯ	palɯ	kiʎɯ	pɯʎɯ
Dative	kɯæ	pihɯ	kɯæ	pihɯ	kɯæ	pihɯ
Accusative	pɛn	pɯ	pan	pa	pod	pæ
Vocative	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ablative	pɯ	pihɯ	pa	pihɯ	pɯ	pihɯ

Conjugation

	Indicative mood, active voice, present tense
	portāre		terrēre		petere		audīre
	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
First Person	pɤrtɯ	pɤrtamɯ	tærræɯ	tærrɛmɯ	pæsɯ	pæsimɯ	auzæɯ	auzimɯ
Second Person	pɤrta	ppɤrtasɛ	tærrɛ	tærrɛsɛ	pæsɛ	pæsœsœ	auzy	auzisɛ
Third Person	pɤrtat	pɤrtant	tærræt	tærrænt	pæsɛt	pæsint	auzɛt	auzæɯnt