User talk:Elector Dark/Vestlenskt

V1&V2
What has been your thoughts on how to tackle clusters like V1ðV2 and V1nV2? Currently, your rules applied would give us a pattern of schwas, which I don't think will exist for very long. Take the word elskaði  (sing. 1p past tense of elska), it would likely change into something like elskəðə. I'm not sure how similar the grammar of Vestlenskt is to Old Norse (since you have been working with your own independent branches iirc), but this would likely cause a lot of mergers to happen in declensional system, unless you are specifically going for a Danish-esque route. Thoughts?

​Ælfwine (talk) 01:55, November 26, 2016 (UTC)

I haven't done more detailed work on the grammar but Vestlenskt is supposed to be a descendant of Vāgøgjaskt in a slice of western Norway. I haven't worked out any of the specifics, either, but a contraction of the inflection system is pretty much what I intended, somewhere on the scale between Faroese and western Norwegian irl. 11:15, November 22, 2016 (UTC) ~) The Elector, Darkness Immaculate

​​So far this is what worked for me:

V1nV2 V1ðV2 > V1nV1 V1ðV1

V1nV1 V1ðV1 > V̄1

a i u > ə

V̄ > V

e.g. elskaðir > elskar

elskaðan > elskan

elskiði > elski

elskuðum > elskum

Alternatively, V1nV2 V1ðV2 > V2nV2 V2ðV2 ​may give more distinctive forms.

I have yet to figure out what to do with pesky words such as elskaðrar...

Ælfwine (talk) 01:55, November 26, 2016 (UTC)