Slavo-Japanese

Niông is a hypothetical Cymrosemblant descendant of modern Japanese, à la Efenol.

Suveden ningêla dhidhûdha uvarnârenist, mad blaudhaudha songent cêridhe. Ningêla saugerareda rizaed lauzinne, mad caudhauzinagerevaran tâini dauaun saezinne.

Long vowel reflexes: ā ī ō oi ē ai ū ui > /aɨ ei aw ei ai ui aɨ ɨ:/

Slender consonant reflexes: ky gy ch j sh ny py by my hy ry > /tʃ dʒ θ ð nʲ pl bl vl ɬ l/ <tsi j th dd si n pl bl vl lh l>

Numbers: 1. eith 2. ni 3. sañ 4. ioñ 5. go 6. rog 7. saith (< si:θ < shichi) 8. wyth (< aiθ < hachi) 9. tsieu 10. ddeu

• kutsu /kɯ̥t͡sɯ/ "shoe" > chu
• atsu "pressure" > *ass > âz (random change)
  • 圧力 âzreg "physical pressure"
• çi̥kaɴ "pessimism" > *sgâ > ysgâ "despair"
• kʲi̥ɕit͡sɯ "temperament" > csitsu > chisu
• kɯɕi̥kɯmo "strangely" > cysguf
• eien "eternity" > aiê
  • eien-no "eternal", eien-ni "eternally" > aien
• ai > wy "love"

Internal history

Rising political instability in 21st-century Japan eventually led to societal collapse, and worse, a civil war that produced many Japanese refugees to Canada and northern Europe. No longer under influence of standardization, the Japanese they spoke underwent rapid changes over generations. In particular, the language spoken by the Canadian Japanese refugees developed into Niông.

Nouns

Cases

• nom is -a or -la
• acc is -o or -lo
• genitive/dative is -n
• locative/instrumental is either -dde or -nne
• lative is -ngath < ni mukatte
• comitative is -d/-nt
• associative plural is -dwyth/-twyth < -tachi