Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Proto-Italic verb conjugations/reply

The 2nd person imperatives are ok to include, since they have PIE ancestors. But the real difficulties are with the overall verb system itself. Many of the Latin perfect formations have no equivalent in the other Italic languages, and we're not sure where they came from. Because of this, it's quite possible that Proto-Italic still distinguished aorist and perfect and hadn't yet united them into a single formation. We also don't have any idea how the periphrastic forms were made, or if they even existed. Overall, there's quite a lot that I don't feel comfortable with showing in an inflection table. Perhaps the most secure are the present indicative, the aforementioned two imperative forms, and the present and past participles. So maybe you could make a small table that included only those, and we can expand it as we figure out a consensus to put in more?