Verse:Irta/Tricin

Things we're tempted to do in Tricin but won't do. :)

People

• Etsoj Jopah -> Tsăhong Starwise

Languages

• Semitic, IE - spoken by immigrants from Apple PIE
  • Bjeheondian English
  • Bjeheondian Hebrew
• Talmic
  • Middle Eevo
    • Judeo-Eevo
  • Wiebian
    • a Yiddish-inspired descendant, vibish, spoken in Wieb
    • an Old-Englishy language; haugen-datzes -> hēagendazs?
    • a tonal language inspired by Danish and Vietnamese

Bjeheondian English

VSO exclamations common; certain Bjeheondian calques; varying levels of Windermere and Shalaian phonetic influences

Shalaian accents sound closest to what we know as native English

Bjeheondians sometimes reduce vowels to /ə/ even when native accents don't, like sometimes /səmtəms/; they also generalize plurals of nouns ending in f and th, the latter pronounced /dz/.

Other common phonetic features are a total merger of voiced th and d and th-stopping. R was historically uvular in broad Bjeheondian accents and alveolar in cultivated accents but this is reversed in modern times. As in other varieties of English, native words referring to flora and fauna as well as cultural concepts unique to Tricin are borrowed into Bjeheondian English.

Bjeheondian English is typically non-rhotic, influenced by Shalaian. Windermere-influenced accents realize the syllabic r as a front rounded vowel /ø/, and in unstressed position, /ə/ as in Shalaian rather than the native Windermere /ɐ/. Final devoicing is a dialectal feature of certain Wiebian accents.

Stress may differ in Bjeheond due to a mixture of spelling pronunciations and influences from regional dialects of Apple PIE, often tracing to Greek or Romance languages -- e.g. epheméral stressed on the third syllable; -tion nouns are regularized as in áttribution