Verse:Mwail/Ernish
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Ernish (native name Auzinim /ɐʉʐɪnɪm/) is an Irenesian language spoken in Eastern Siberia and northern North America along with its closest relatives (the Ernic branch of Irenesian, including Whyastian).
Diachronics
- The first schwa in a word is deleted if not word-initial, after applying the rule Və -> V: -> V
- word-final schwa is deleted
- mˁ tˁ -> mw pw
- q χ -> kw xw before e i; this results in Proto-Ernic.
- ə -> a after q, -> o after mw pw, i otherwise
Get g from PEK *r
The Ernish
Religion
Originally Ernic speakers were followers of Āínkiīaánịạkàì; however, most today are irreligious. A minority follow syncretisms of Āínkiīaánịạkàì and Sfipsurtop.
Phonology
p pw t ch tr k /p pʷ t tɕ~ɕ ʈʂ k/
d z g h /ð ʐ ɢ h/
w l /w l/
m mw n nh nr ng /m mʷ n ɲ ɳ ŋ/
i e a o u /ɪ e̞ ɐ o̞ ʉ/
/o/ is [ʌ] after /w mʷ pʷ/
the voiced uvular stop is phonologically a voiced velar fricative
some accents could merge l into edh
(edh initially sounds like a labialized Danish soft d)
Grammar
VSO; similar to Indonesian or Classical Arabic grammar