I think that since /ʃ/ is spelled <x>, /t͡ʃ/ may be spelled <tx>, but I think I will stick with <ch> for now. My next step has been to work on personal pronouns: Although Old English had lost its reflexive pronoun, Kastixex redeveloped one from borrowing from a local Iberian Germanic language. Here is the …
Iberian West Germanic / Kastixex – WIP
Kastixex /kas’tiʃeʃ/ from “Castilish” from Old Spanish Castiella This new project is based on an alt-history in which a group of mostly Old English speakers ended up on the Iberian peninsula and then their language underwent sound changes similar to those that led to the development of Spanish and Galician. I would imagine that there …
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Changes to the optative mood
I changed the formation of the optative mood to make it more internally consistent. The optative is based on historical formant *-ka, which is attached to the present subjunctive form. The past optative is formed by adding the past formant *-u to it, forming *-ko, and the irrealis formant *-i, is added to the present …