Gwrengax

Gwnax (/gʷnax/, English: goo-NA(H)KH) is a Bjeheondian language isolate inspired by Welsh, Old Chinese and Tibeto-Burman. It is grammatically very similar to Modern Windermere and Vernacular Netagin.

Gibberish: Ngwran tanxwlej be toh ma'ang siknagw, sy tu xyzell ham. Byrrong tyx kwosra nsoj xyh netsull, namte 'asmad se ykw'arij.

Maxwell = a name

• erku = town, city; forms city names (can this be justified with Armenian-like sound changes from a proto-language?)
• Erkwed, Erkwisngwal = name of cities
• xwahan = forest
• dlowng = wheel
• llymboj = horse
• wok = good
• 'lats = livestock
• lats = to sustain, to provide
• kwa = stone
• kykwa = boulder
• wansem = plough
• pruk = end
• gemra = to live
• aknull = paint, color
• mnep = vase
• be = past particle

1: pos 2: wyng 3: yhew 4: taxwi 5: azep 6: rynoj 7: kwlyng 8: tsil 9: masah 10: ngwet

History

Gwnax is believed to be the only surviving descendant of the pre-Lakovic, pre-Idavic indigenous languages of Bjeheond. It's generally accepted that the language of the Dwābisȝōlan civilization of Bjeheond is an old form of Gwnax and its script is the source for Idavic and Windermere scripts today. Even the name Dwābisȝōlan is a Thensarianized form of an Old Gwnax ancestor of the name Erkwisngwal, which displays the characteristic sound change dw- -> erk- which shows up among Trician languages only in Gwnax.

Phonology

Vowels

a e i o u y /a e i o u ɨ/

Consonants

m n ng ngw p t ts k kw ' b d z g gw s x xw h l r ll rr w /m n ŋ ŋʷ p t ts k kʷ ʔ b d dz g gʷ s x xʷ h l r ɬ r̥ w/

Phonotactics

Allowed initial clusters are:

• RR: mn ml mr nl nr ngl ngr ngwl ngwr 'l 'r
• PR: pl pr tl tr kn kl kr kwn kwl kwr
• BR: bl br dl dr gn gl gr gwn gwl gwr
• FR: sm sn sng sngw sl sr xn xl xr xwn xwl xwr

Allowed finals are: -' -p -t -k -kw -b -d -g -gw -m -n -ng -l -r -j -w -s -ts

Coda clusters are prohibited.