Idavic languages

Idavic languages/Lexicon

Idavic languages/Swadesh

Idavic
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Geographic distribution	Etalocin, eastern Txapoalli, Bjeheond
Linguistic classification	One of Tricin's primary language families
Proto-language	Proto-Idavic (PId)

Idavic or Idavo-Etalocian is a Trician language family which includes Dodellic. The urheimat is central-western Etalocin.

Inspiration: Semitic, IE

Family tree

• Idavic
  • Netagic (the only tricons branch)
    • Netagin (Optimized for piyyutim)
  • Sésjallese (Hiberno-Arabic)
  • Ouřefr (Czech + Dutch)
  • Pategic
    • Dodellic
      • Dodellian
    • sth with Sanskrit stops (but vowels shouldn't be Sanskrit-y; a bit more like Lithuanian?)
    • Pategian
    • some labialless language
    • Shalaian

Phonology

Consonants

Proto-Idavic had about 27 consonants and had a distinction between front and back coronals and front and back velars. It is thought to have had no labials except /m/; labials were gained in later languages but in different ways.

		Labial	Front coronal	Back coronal	Front velar	Back velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n̪~n̠/		ŋ /ɲ~ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless		t /t̪/	ť /t̠/	ḱ /k̟/	k /k̠/	kʷ /kʷ/	q /ʔ/
	voiced		d /d̪/	ď /d̠/	ǵ /g̟/	g /g̠/	gʷ /gʷ/
Fricative			s /s̟/	š /s̠/	x́ /x̟/	x /x̠/	xʷ /xʷ/	h /h/
Affricate			c /t̪s̟/	č /t̠s̠/
Resonant			l /l̪/	r /r/, ľ /ɺ/	y /j/		w /w/

In PId triliteral roots, front coronal stops and back coronal stops could not occur next to each other, and neither could front velars, back velars and labiovelars stops (hopefully then the roots would sound less Semitic).

Vowels

Proto-Idavic had a vowel system similar to that of Proto-Balto-Slavic.

Proto-Netagin vowels

	Front		Back
	short	long	short	long
Close	i /ɪ/	ī /i:/	u /ʊ/	ū /u:/
Open	e /æ/	ē /æ:/	a /ɑ/	ā /ɑ:/

Diphthongs: ay aw ey ew

Suprasegmentals

• Pitch accent: modal (á), creaky (ã)
  • Creaky voice is the source of glottal reinforcement in Shalaian and gemination in Netagin.

Morphology

Triconsonantal but only Netagin preserves this

active vs stative verbs turns into agent-oriented vs patient oriented in Netagin, but turns into tense in other Idavic languages

Syntax

Proto-Idavic was rigidly head-initial with a morphosyntax similar to Lushootseed or Austronesian. Most present-day Idavic languages (except Netagin) are less head-initial.