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Around 1300 Irtan Parisian French started evolving very rapidly, around the fifteenth century it had a similar aesthetic to our timeline's Modern French. Around the seventeenth century there was another huge series of sound shifts (including a chain shift l -> r -> h, vowel shifts and Havlik's law) as well as grammatical shifts due to the loss of prestige of Literary French in Irta. Today's Hyperfrench is a quasi-polysynthetic language with clitic complexes and bipersonal agreement, very unusual for Indo-European.
Around 1300 Irtan Parisian French started evolving very rapidly, around the fifteenth century it had a similar aesthetic to our timeline's Modern French. Around the seventeenth century there was another huge series of sound shifts (including a chain shift l -> r -> h, vowel shifts and Havlik's law) as well as grammatical shifts due to the loss of prestige of Literary French in Irta. Today's Hyperfrench is a quasi-polysynthetic language with clitic complexes and bipersonal agreement, very unusual for Indo-European.


Modern Hyperfrench has lots of loans from Irish, Riphic and English, the latter including many reborrowed Old French words.
Modern Hyperfrench has lots of loans from Irish, Brythonic, Riphic and English, the latter including many reborrowed Old French words.  


==Phonology==
==Phonology==
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2pl: vy, devy
2pl: vy, devy
== Syntax ==
More satellite-framed than French as we know it (because of Irish and English)