Antiqua Latina

Overview Antiqua Latina is simply the Latin language made to look more ancient by adding features from the other Italic languages, Venetic and some loosely based generalizations of the grammars of ancient Indo-European languages. It is highly regular, and relatively simple than the ancient Indo-European languages. Therefore, it is not in any way a reconstruction of the Old Latin language. =Setting=

=Basic Grammar=

Verbs
Verbs are devided into two large groups, thematic and athematic. The thematic is further devided into four groups based on their thematic vowel(a, e, i). The athematic verbs are very few and have the possibility of being slightly irregular.

There are five non-finite forms for every verb, which are 3 infinitives and 2 participles. The participles are declinable as nouns or adjectives. On the other hand, the infinitives stay just as it is.

The finite forms are conjugated according to 2 numbers, 3 persons, 2 voices, and 3 tenses. The passive voice if applied to an intransitive verb has a reflexive meaning.

The Infinitives
There are two forms of present infinitives, they are interchangeable to each other. The first is by the suffix -re attached to the stem(if athematic) or theme vowel(if thematic), the second is by attaching the suffix -um. The past uses -isse regardless to which group the verb belongs.

The participles
The participle are two, the present active and past passive. The present active ending is -ent, while the passive is

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