Hivantish

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Hivantish
hivantutåzwar
Pronunciation[/hivantuta:zwár/]
Created byUser:Praimhín
SettingVerse:Irta
Native speakers446 million (2016)
Indo-European

Hivantish (hivantutåzwár /hivantuta:zwár/ or hivantá tåzwár /hivantá ta:zwár/; hivantúr is from *sebʰ- 'reflexive' + *-ntós 'Caland adjective suffix', thus 'of [our] own', or Prisinitáa tåzuár "natural language") is an isolated branch within the Indo-European language family, loosely inspired by Icelandic, Greenlandic, Old Persian and Proto-Celtic. Before the era of Hivantish literature, a specially constructed language referred to as ??? "refined language" was used in religious and other writings; with the advent of Hivantish druidism, the common language became increasingly popular as the language of literature, hence the designation "natural language".

Classical Hivantish was a satem IE language with a grammar very similar to today's Balto-Slavic languages and had a significant corpus of druidic lore. This continued through the Middle Hivantish period where the language underwent considerable simplification, along the lines of Modern Greek, and an influx of words from Inuit, Riphean, Greek, Romance and Azalic languages, especially English. Modern Hivantish is very similar to Middle Hivantish but underwent a spelling reform due to the sometimes idiosyncratic and irregular ways in which non-Romance vocabulary in Hivantish was transcribed in the Roman alphabet.

Modern Hivantish (ūruhivantisúr tåzwár [u:ruhivandi'suə tO:z'wa:]) is the most widely spoken descendant of Classical Hivantish, and it's inspired by Modern Greek and Icelandic, drawing on phonological, diachronic and grammatical similarities between the two languages.

Modern Hivantish has two registers, a literary one drawing heavily from Classical Hivantish and making use of mostly native vocabulary (c.f. Háfrónska and Katharevousa), and spoken Hivantish which has lots of loanwords from English, Riphean, Greek and Nyvierfusiez.

Modern Hivantish derives mostly from the Tremisian dialect of Ancient Hivantish but there is some koineization from northern dialects.

Todo

  • Marked nominatives as in Greek and Icelandic
  • The case inventory is reduced to nom/acc/dat/gen; definite article (postposed but a separate word)
  • Possessive pronouns follow nouns
  • Mediopassive
  • Retracted /s/; dental fricatives
  • Ancient Hivantish y from *ū -> i (spelled y)
  • Hivantish can end sentences with prepositions
  • æ pronounced /e:/ from *ai?
  • in and at should mean the same as in English
  • pitch accent lost -- should become stød?
  • -o-os → -a-ur instead of -u-ur?

Phonology

a á é i ó u ú y æ ö

ll: lateral fricative

rr: uvular fricative (these can start words)

r: uvular

Some accents of Hivantish have r-vocalization/are nonrhotic - word final R surfaces as compensatory lengthening or offglides.

tķ -> þ

/mp nt nk/ pronounced as [mb nd ŋg] (as in Greek)

Grammar

Noun genders are significantly leveled (most -ar and -ir nouns are masculine, with the exception of personal names and abstract nouns in -tir)

The demonstrative is innur, cognate with the Proto-Celtic *sindos.

-llu: equivalent of -tion as well as the native tool suffix?

Adjectives

"old"

nom: hinur, hina, hin, pl. hinyr

gen/dat: hinæ, pl. hinyn/hinavur (depending on dialect)

acc: hin, hina, hin, pl. hinyr

Nouns

-r stem nouns

válkur 'wolf' (< *wĺ̥kʷos; underwent taboo deformation)
Singular Plural
Nominative valkur valkår
Genitive valkå valkų
Dative valkæ valkavur
Accusative valk valkūr
Ablative valkut valkavur
Vocative valki! valkår!

Thematic neuters

diuh 'human' (< *dhewsóm)
Singular Plural
Nominative diuh diuha
Genitive diuhå diuhų
Dative diuhæ diuhavur
Accusative diuh diuha
Ablative diuhut diuhavur
Vocative diuhi! diuha!

-a stem nouns

-i and -u stem nouns

-ma nouns

Lexicon

  • tiuh (n) 'human'
  • ingnir 'fire' (influenced by Inuit ingniq; regular reflex is **angnir)
  • irta 'earth'
  • wæ 'woe'
  • wutra "water" (was a neuter heteroclitic wutar, wutanir in CHiv)
  • ūrur "new" (cognate with Albanian ri)
  • hynur "son"
  • hinur "old"
  • jysur "young"
  • hama "summer"
  • zyma "winter"
  • åzur "narrow"
  • hyrur "wide" (~ gjerë in Albanian, hir in Welsh)
  • tyntur "long" (<- duh2-ntos)
  • micur "big"
  • lytinur "little, small"
  • rruma "stream"
  • ösur "horse"
  • kūr "cow"
  • zwērir "beast"
  • zwērinur "wild"
  • akir "eye"
  • nåhur "nose"
  • urr "mouth", random conflation of wekwtrom and Heh1s
  • zēnar "hand" <- g'hesn-
  • sirtar "heart"
  • astronōmur "astronomer"
  • apolōgija "apology"
  • musæ "museum"
  • fænōmen "phenomenon"
  • kentru "center"
  • vūtur "butter"
  • lampar "lamp"
  • warð "rose"
  • læwa "olive"
  • informallu "information"
    • informallisur "informative"
  • nåwur "(poetic) boat"
  • hūrnur "good" (< h1su-h2r-nos)
  • lūhna "moon"
  • vaður 'spear' (< bhodh-os)
  • garur 'expertise' (< *ghóros < *gher- 'to grasp')

Todo: develop Hivantic synonyms

Inuit loans:

  • ævir 'walrus' (aiviq)
  • avinngar 'lemming'
  • uxur 'blubber' (uqsuq)
  • kajar 'boat' (doublet of kajak, a reborrowing through English)
  • åsivar 'spider' 
  • illu 'house' (alternate etymology of English igloo)
  • tikir 'finger' (sometimes explained from PIE)
  • arvær 'whale'

Names

  • Hucnåkur 'good sign'
  • Hucinur ~ Eugene (m)
  • Arþur 'bear' (m)
    • One source of Arthur in Irta
  • Åsivar 'spider' (m) (aasivaq)
  • Amarur 'wolf' (m) (amaruq)
  • Warð 'rose' (f)
  • -garur (m/f) 'expertise'
    • Warðgarur (m/f), from warð 'rose' + -garur; source of the Irta Thai name Phatthakhong, via Irta Indic Vardhaghaṅ

Sample texts

Schleicher's Fable

Awir iswårki

Awir, juhmai walinå nēm issi, iwiti iswūr, ainų garų waznų tinngantą, ainunki mizalų kråmą, ainunki zamuną asu virantą. Awir nū iswavur iwaki: "Sartar anngitur mai, witantī zamuną iswūr azantą." Iswår nū awī iwakēr: "Asauhē, awi, sartar anngitur ahmai witantavur citut: Zamū, tēmputir, ut awijūm walinåt karnit hai girmų wihmą. Awī nū walinå nēm eht." Awir nū citut slauhåwur į plånų ivuki.