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'''Novelatine''' is a language, spoken by a few thousand people in two remote mountain valleys in Central Italy. Its speakers call their own language '''Sa lêgwa syar dwar valyô''', ''The language of the two valleys'', or simply '''Sa lêgwa (nob)''', ''The/Our language''. It is a direct descendent of Latin, and it retained a more conservative grammar, morphology and syntaxis than the other Romance languages. Its lexicon retains many more words directly from Latin than other Romance lexicons. | '''Novelatine''' is a language, spoken by a few thousand people in two remote mountain valleys in Central Italy. Its speakers call their own language '''Sa lêgwa syar dwar valyô''', ''The language of the two valleys'', or simply '''Sa lêgwa (nob)''', ''The/Our language''. It is a direct descendent of Latin, and it retained a more conservative grammar, morphology and syntaxis than the other Romance languages. Its lexicon retains many more words directly from Latin than other Romance lexicons. | ||
Apart from its conservatism, the main feature is the presence of two distinct dialects, one for each valleys, with some definite differences. | |||
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Revision as of 11:49, 13 November 2012
Novelatine is a language, spoken by a few thousand people in two remote mountain valleys in Central Italy. Its speakers call their own language Sa lêgwa syar dwar valyô, The language of the two valleys, or simply Sa lêgwa (nob), The/Our language. It is a direct descendent of Latin, and it retained a more conservative grammar, morphology and syntaxis than the other Romance languages. Its lexicon retains many more words directly from Latin than other Romance lexicons.
Apart from its conservatism, the main feature is the presence of two distinct dialects, one for each valleys, with some definite differences.
| STUVE = village, town | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Case | Singular | Plural | Dual |
| Nominative | STUVE | STUVĪ | STUVETE |
| Genitive | STUVU | STUVĪU | STUVETU |
| Dative | STUVAI | STUVĪAI | STUVETAI |
| Accusative | STUVON | STUVĪON | STUVETON |
| Instrumental | STUVENE | STUVĪENE | STUVETĪNE |
| Locative | STUVOTE | STUVĪOTE | STUVETETE |
| Adlative | STUVAASE | STUVĪĪSE | STUVETAASE |
| Delative | STUVAATE | STUVĪĪTE | STUVETAATE |
