Verse:Irta/Icelandic Gaelic

Irish in the Albionian timeline has absorbed significant Slavic (e.g. Albionian) influence, and Slavic elements even penetrated grammar and grammatical morphemes.

History

The Protestant Reformation culminated in the establishment of a form of Protestantism as the state religion of Albion, and Albionian became associated with Protestantism. Thus the Catholic Church promoted the Irish language in Ireland as part of its Counter-Reformation program, which involved associating Catholicism and anti-Albionian sentiment with Irish national identity. The program attempted to purify the Irish language by removing Slavic words and morphology and incorporate Old Irish elements. However, the purism was not entirely successful, as Slavic had already penetrated deep into the function words and grammatical morphology.

Todo

beidbhéid (m) = bear (from Slavic, plus mh/bh confusion) Default verbing suffix is -uaigh (-uaim, -uair, -uann sé, -uaimid, -uaithid, -uann siad, verbnoun -ú or colloquially -uainí), from Slavic -ovati verbs

• e.g. companuaigh = to compose music (From Albionian componowaṫ)

Nouns

The neuter gender and dative plural -aibh is preserved but there are fewer declension classes. The nominative plural of masculines and feminines is uniformly -(a)i /ɪ/ (by Slavic influence) and plural of neuters is usually -a.

The indefinite article is den (from den 'from the' + Slavic *edìn 'one'); it or lack thereof is part of the case/number/gender declension.

	fear (m.) = man		stránca (f.) = bulletin board		sceul (n.) = story, news
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
Nominative	den fear an fear	fearai ant fearai	dent stránca ant stránca	stráncai na stráncai	den sceul an sceul	sceula na sceula
Genitive	dent fhear ant fhear	fear na bhfearaibh	dena stránca na stránca	stránca na stráncaibh	dent sceul ant sceul	sceul na sceulaibh
Prepositional	dent fear ant fear	fearaibh na fearaibh	dent stránca ant stránca	stráncaibh na stráncaibh	dent sceul ant sceul	sceulaibh na sceulaibh

Neuter nouns in the Slavic suffixes -ní, -tí are indeclinable.

Adjectives do not inflect for case, number or gender (ignoring initial mutation):

	After masculine		After feminine		After neuter
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
Nominative	den fear beag	fearai beag	dent stránca bheag	stráncai beag	den sceul mbeag	sceula bheag
Genitive	dent fhear bheag	fear mbeag	dena stránca beag	stránca mbeag	dent sceul bheag	sceul mbeag
Prepositional	dent fear bheag	fearaibh beag	dent stránca bheag	stráncaibh beag	dent sceul bheag	sceulaibh beag