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Conlangery #88: Ancient Greek (natlang)

Conlangery Podcast

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Is the Greek Alphabet to Learn?

People who love morphology in tables should really spend some time looking at Greek verbs. There is an entirely separate conjugation for a small set of very commonly occurring presents. The declension of Zeus is very weird and it's quite different in different dialects. If you had a glide, like a yasounds or a yasound, those evaporated by the time historical Greek appears but they still existed. And so all sorts of madness happens when they go away.

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