From: Adam Walker (carrajena@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 18:41:27 EST
Once, long ago I posted a paradigm for the present tense of "to be" in Carrajena (then called Cardadjena). You'll find the old paradigm at the end, but this is mainly to post the new paradigm as it nor esixts.
Infinitive
serri
Present tense
ju sunu (or sun~u) nos sumus
tu ses (or se) tus sidis
vos sidi vosus sidis
vosas sidis
su esti sus sunts
sa esti sas sunts
si esti sis sunts
I'm not sure I like the analogy on "sunt", but I'm pretty sure I'm going to drop the "s" at the end of "ses" to give an (overly?) Italianish "se". As for the sunu/sun~u problem, I may keep both pronunciations with one seen as "correct" and the other "dialectal" with the division probably being urban (Carthage/Tunis/(Algiers?) vs. rural or east (Carthage/Tunis) vs west (Algiers).
See below for the older version and make comments/suggestions accordingly.
>Infinitive
>
>eseri
>
>Present tense
>
>jo sumu nos sumus
>tu es tus sidis
>vos sidi vosus sidis
> vosas sidis
>su est sus sunt
>sa est sas sunt
>si est sis sunt
>
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