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{{Babel|en-4|ka-3|la-3|fr-3|uk-2|footer=Also I can read—but not speak—any other Italo-Western Romance variety.}}
I mainly deal with entries in Romance languages and (when relevant) Latin.

=== Agenda ===
* <s>Recategorize all 1099 Catalan words that are claimed to be ‘[[:Category:Catalan terms inherited from Old Occitan|inherited from Old Occitan]]’ as either inherited from Old Catalan/Latin or borrowed from Old Occitan.</s> ✓
* <s>Remove hundreds of fake Mozarabic words added by [[Special:Contributions/Romandalusí|Romandalusí]], often through thirty or so different IP's.</s> ✓
* Sort through categories for Romance words claimed to be ‘inherited from Latin’ and remove the ones that clearly weren't.
** <s>[[:Category:Catalan inherited terms|Catalan]]</s> ✓ 15/08/23
** <s>[[:Category:Franco-Provençal inherited terms|Franco-Provençal]]</s> ✓ 08/06/24
** [[:Category:French inherited terms|French]]:
** [[:Category:Italian inherited terms|Italian]]:
** [[:Category:Neapolitan inherited terms|Neapolitan]] {{q|largely complete}}
** [[:Category:Occitan inherited terms|Occitan]]:
** [[:Category:Portuguese inherited terms|Portuguese]]:
** <s>[[:Category:Romanian inherited terms|Romanian]]</s> {{q|no need, already fine}}
** <s>[[:Category:Spanish inherited terms|Spanish]]</s> ✓ 03/09/22
* Move all [[:Category:Latin reconstructed terms|'Reconstructed Latin terms']] which are in fact attested (in the appropriate time period) to the mainspace, with citations.
* Recategorize all ‘[[:Category:Terms inherited from Medieval Latin|Terms inherited from Medieval Latin]]’ as one of the following: {{q|largely complete}}
** Inherited from ''Early'' Medieval Latin (attested up to ca. 10th c. AD)
** ''Borrowed'' from (later) Medieval Latin (attested 11th c. and later)
** Inherited from a reconstructed ‘Vulgar Latin’ term (unattested anywhere prior to 11th c.)
* Neapolitan clean-up:
** <s>Fix/check metaphonic plurals</s> ✓
** Fix IPA transcriptions {{q|largely complete}}
** <s>Relemmatize verbs to ⟨-re⟩ spellings</s> ✓
* Franco-Provençal overhaul:
** <s>Move all lemmas to ORB spellings</s> ✓
** <s>Add Swadesh list words</s> ✓
** Add pronouns {{q|largely complete}}
** Fix the verb conjugations
** Add references to AIS/ALF/FEW wherever applicable
** Add altforms per DFP/LTA/FEW

=== Miscellanea ===

==== Appendices/categories of interest ====
* [[Appendix:Mozarabic kharjas|Mozarabic kharjas]]
* [[Appendix:Italian terms inherited from Latin|Italian terms inherited from Latin]]
* [[Appendix:French terms inherited from Latin|French terms inherited from Latin]]
* [[Appendix:Survivals of the Latin nominative in Romance|Survivals of the Latin nominative in Romance]]
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* [[:Category:Latin terms with variable monophthongization|Latin terms with variable monophthongization]]
* [[:Category:Italian terms with voicing of Latin /-p t k-/|Italian terms with voicing of Latin /-p t k-/]]
* [[:Category:Sardinian terms with /e/ for Latin /i/|Sardinian terms with /e/ for Latin /i/]]
* [[:Category:Late Latin prepositional compounds|Late Latin prepositional compounds]]
* [[:Category:Catalan masculine forms with -o|Catalan masculine forms with -o]]
* [[:Category:Georgian terms with /f/|Georgian terms with /f/]]
* [[:Category:Early Medieval Latin|Early Medieval Latin]]

==== Phonological pet peeves ====
* If a language has phonemic stress, its presence or absence should be indicated in monosyllabic words, not omitted for the sake of typographical convenience. Consider the minimal pair {{m|en|Anne}} :: {{m|en|an}}, that is /ˈæn/ :: /æn/. Representing both as /æn/ would fail to account for the differences in surface realization.<ref>''Anne-Marie'' ['''ˌan'''məˈɹiː], ''an artist'' ['''ə̆~ăˈn'''ɑːtɪst].</ref>
* There is no such thing as contrastive syllable division or contrastive secondary stress in any of the languages with which I am familiar.<ref>Nor, I suspect, in any human language.</ref> Any claimed example falls apart once one accounts for morphology.
** ''Night-rate'' :: ''nitrate'' = ⫽ˈnaɪt+ˈɹeɪt⫽ :: ⫽ˈnaɪtɹeɪt⫽<ref>One could also analyse ''nitrate'' as a confix of ⫽ˈnaɪtɹəʊ-+-eɪt⫽, with ''nitro-'' having the prevocalic allomorph ''nitr-''.</ref> > [ˈnaɪt.ˌɹeɪt] :: [ˈnaɪ.ʧɹeɪt]. In other words, the reason they sound different is that the former (but not the latter) has /t/ and /ɹ/ split across two different morphemes, ''night-rate'' being a transparent combination of ''night'' and ''rate''.
** ''Reagan'' :: ''raygun'' = ⫽ˈɹeɪɡən⫽ :: ⫽ˈɹeɪ+ˈɡʌn⫽ > [ˈɹeɪ.ɡən] :: [ˈɹeɪ.ˌɡʌn]. That is, the latter (but not the former) is a transparent combination of two nouns, ''ray'' and ''gun'', each with their own underlying stress.

===Notes===
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