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An Bhlaoighne | |
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An Bhlaoighne Qheo | |
Pronunciation | [an bʰlaojgʰne tɬʰeo] |
Created by | Praimhín |
Setting | Verse:Schngaoife |
An Bhlaoighne Qheo /an bʰlaojgʰne tɬʰeo/ 'the special/holy speech', shortened as An Bhlaoighne, is a conlang inspired by reading Irish orthography literally (for example: seamh /seamh/). It was originally created by User:Praimhín.
In-universe, it is a conlang by Schngaoife. Though its grammar is Standard Average Talman, its phonology (before it evolves into Dheofáid) is less so. Schngellstein was inspired by Talmic, especially Tigol; Aoife was inspired by the pre-Trician reform Irish orthography.
An Bhlaoighne is used in a popular Trician/Crackfic Trician sci-fi video game created by Schngaoife where it is the ceremonial language of ascended transhumans in a culture called Méich Bhaonnáiqh. The conlang steals morphemes from many languages, including Naeng (1sg r, 2sg ł), Irish (samhradh for summer etc.), Hebrew, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Korean, and Indo-Iranian (especially when they sound like literally read Irish words: for example tanaí, 'thin' in Irish, means 'condition' in An Bhlaoighne, from Hebrew תנאי tănay). However, the majority of the vocabulary is a priori (read: a significant fraction of which is Earth math and xenharmonic music Easter eggs).
The facts stated here as descriptive of the spoken language refer to the spoken language of the first generation of native speakers in Tricin/CF Tricin. Mentions of prescriptivism refer to the original grammar used in the video game and codified by Schngaoife.
Todo
igliashón = ?
earabh = to combine (Erv Wilson's CPS, Hebrew ערב ėrėv 'to mix')
What does -aigh mean?
cleopatra, cleopatramh, cleopatraigh = ?
Make the grammar as un-European as a Standard Average Talman language can get (Irish and Hebrew count as Standard Average Talman for this purpose, but we aren't using tricons)
Non-European Eevo features
- Specificity but no definiteness marking in articles in Dheofáid
- Lack of grammatical number in Dheofáid
- Prepositional suffixes for nouns, like Eevo hmawg lly etc.
- Topic-comment structure
- Construct state
- Natural gender in Dheofáid (rare in SAE)
- difference between is-a and is-the (only in Goidelic?)
Non-European Anbirese features
- Turkish style evidentiality?
- past participle is unmarked, preterite is hearsay
- Split ergativity
- Finnish-style multiple infinitives
- Infinitive absolute
- Inalienable v. alienable possession (construct/suffixes for inalienable, an equivalent of "shel" for alienable)
Non-European Naeng features
- No morphological comparatives
- non-definite specific articles
- Negation in complement clauses are not raised as in English ("I think not-X" = 'I don't think X')
- Adjectives are more verbal than nominal
Non-European Tseer features
- Possessive pronoun suffixes
- Predicative pronoun suffixes (for "is-a")
- Telicity
- Pluractionality: marked with a prefix?
Phonology
Prescriptive phonology of An Bhlaoighne:
a e i o u á é í ó ú /ä e̞ i o̞ u ä: e̞: i: o̞: u:/ + far too many diphthongs to even count!
b c d f g h l m n p q r s t x /b k d̪ f g h~ɦ l̪ m n̪ p tɬ r s t̪ ɬ/
s may be dental or alveolar.
A glottal stop is prescriptively added to vowel-initial words. It may be added before initial prenasalized consonants: an mblaoighne [an ʔᵐblaojgʰne].
The letters 0bcdfgpqstx can participate in two mutations. In addition, m can be aspirated.
Aspiration (often called lenition): h bh ch dh fh gh mh ph qh sh th xh /h bʰ kʰ d̪ʰ fʰ gʰ mʰ pʰ tɬʰ sʰ t̪ʰ ɬʰ/
Prenasalization: n- mb gc nd bhf ng _ bp dq dhs dt dhx /n̪ ᵐb ᵑk ⁿd̪ bʰf ᵑg ᵐp ⁿtɬ dʰs ⁿt̪ dʰɬ/
Prescriptively, nouns beginning in sp st sc sm are not subject to mutation. However, descriptively they may lenite to sph sth sch shm.
Intonation
Prescriptively, basically identical to our Czech. Stress is invariably weakly initial.
Evolution
fh sh become /h 2/ initially and /v z/ otherwise
Non-initial ph th qh ch are preglottalized
aío in spoken An Bhlaoighne sounds like /aɟːo/, so tanaíodh /tanaɟːoðʱ/
ío sounds like /iɟːo/
Tiberian-esque accent?
Writing
An Bhlaoighne is written in the Latin alphabet in Gaelic type.
Morphology
Article
Both the definite and indefinite articles are 'an' in the singular, 'na' in the plural.
óis 'one' + plural definite and mhaidh 'some' + plural definite are often used instead of indefinite articles. The full declensions are only used in ceremonial contexts.
Nouns
Declension
The An Bhlaoighne nominal system has ten declensions.
- The plural has the mutations in reverse order from the singular according to the genders.
- The gender determines the singular indefinite and definite mutations (the definite has the corresponding mutation in Old Irish, and the indefinite has an offset of +1 from the definite.)
- The declension 1, 2, 3 determines which gender has the same mutation for definite singular and definite plural (1 = m, 2 = f, 3 = n) and which gender has the same mutation for the indef. singular and indef. plural (1 = n, 2 = m, 3 = f).
First declension masculine: indef. sg. aspiration; indef. pl. prenasalization; def. sg. no mutation; def. pl. no mutation
First declension feminine: indef. sg. prenasalization; indef. pl. aspiration; def. sg. aspiration; def. pl. prenasalization
First declension neuter: indef. sg. no mutation; indef. pl. no mutation; def. sg. prenasalization; def. pl. aspiration
Second declension masculine: indef. sg. aspiration; indef. pl. aspiration; def. sg. no mutation; def. pl. prenasalization
Second declension feminine: indef. sg. prenasalization; indef. pl. no mutation; def. sg. aspiration; def. pl. aspiration
Second declension neuter: indef. sg. no mutation; indef. pl. prenasalization; def. sg. prenasalization; def. pl. no mutation
Third declension masculine: indef. sg. aspiration; indef. pl. no mutation; def. sg. no mutation; def. pl. aspiration
Third declension feminine: indef. sg. prenasalization; indef. pl. prenasalization; def. sg. aspiration; def. pl. no mutation
Third declension neuter: indef. sg. no mutation; indef. pl. aspiration; def. sg. prenasalization; def. pl. prenasalization
Examples:
bheathra 'man' - 2nd decl. masc. | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Indefinite | an bheathra | na bheathra |
Definite | an beathra | na mbeathra |
chealim 'table' - 1st decl. masc. | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Indefinite | an chealim | na gcealim |
Definite | an cealim | na cealim |
mblaoighne 'language' - 1st decl. fem. | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Indefinite | an mblaoighne | na bhlaoighne |
Definite | an bhlaoighne | na mblaoighne |
fiodainn 'honor' - 3rd decl. neut. | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Indefinite | an fiodainn | na fhiodainn |
Definite | an bhfiodainn | na bhfiodainn |
páirín 'house' - 2nd decl. neut. | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Indefinite | an páirín | na bpáirín |
Definite | an bpáirín | na páirín |
(Nouns beginning with 'm' can only be 2nd decl masc, 2nd dec fem, 3rd decl masc or 1st decl fem)
There's also a 'grab bag' class of nouns that begin with consonants that can't be mutated. The gender of a noun in this class is determined solely by meaning, and there is no way to differentiate between its definite and indefinite form.
Construct state
LIke Hebrew but unlike Irish, An Bhlaoighne has construct state but no case. A noun in construct state always lenites the following noun unless there is an article in between (should depend on declension probs). The construct can be irregular, but is regularly formed in the following ways:
- If the noun ends in a consonant, the construct state is formed by adding -a/-e.
- If the noun ends in an unstressed -a/-e, the construct is formed by removing -a/-e.
- Monosyllabic open-syllable nouns are more irregular: dó 'city', construct state dá.
Placing the article in a construct chain
Prescriptively, there are two possible ways to place the article in a construct noun phrase:
- A construct chain can have the article placed before the whole chain: an Chló Fhábh 'Clofabin River' (which mutates the first noun according to its declension), and lenition triggered by preceding construct state nouns is applied as usual.
- Especially when a suffix is added to the whole phrase, the article may be placed right before the last word: Cló an Fhábhaí 'the Clofabian (person)', Cló an Fhábhais 'the Clofabian language'. The article's number is the number of the whole noun phrase. The article forces the last word to mutate the same way as the first noun in the chain; this distinguishes, for example, NOUN1 an1 NOUN2-í (-í modifies the whole phrase "NOUN1 NOUN2") and NOUN1 an2 NOUN2-í (-í modifies NOUN2).
Descriptively, only the first construction is used.
Pronouns
Independent pronouns:
- rúr: I
- qéiq: thou
- áix: he
- áig: she
- ár: sg they
- annsa: this
- ann: that, it
- léil: we (exc)
- dhéidh: we (inc)
- bhéibh: ye
- anna: they
Possessive suffixes
Noun possession suffixes are similar to preposition inflection (as in Hebrew). They are added to construct forms.
pairín, pairín 'house(s)': pairíniúr, pairíniq, pairínear, pairíneannsa, pairíneann, pairínil, pairínidh, pairínibh, pairíneanna
gurbán, gurbáin 'cat': gurbáiniúr, gurbáiniq, ...
If the construct form is a monosyllabic open syllable, -th- is added before the suffix:
dó, dá 'city': dáthúr, dáthaiq, dáthar, dáthannsa, dáthann, dáthail, dáthaidh, dáthaibh, dáthanna
Adjectives
Adjectives agree with nouns in mutation, and they always take an/na (because Hebrew)?
An Bhlaoighne has no morphological comparatives or superlatives. eothar 'more', eo 'as much', eothamh 'most' and ho, fa, af 'than (lit. from)' are used.
Relative clauses
do
Demonstratives
- ann an bpairín = that house
- anns an bpairín/ann an bpairínse = this house
- the choice of -se or -sa is determined by "bwb sws": ann an beathrasa 'this man'
- ann = that
- annsa = this
Tense particles
The past tense uses a finite verb form.
- present progressive: ceis, cean (with the article)
- future: liobh, lian (with the article)
- originally aorist ("timeless"), now present habitual: fo, fon
- Fon cealim go bhfóine. /fon kealim go bʰfo:jne/ 'The table is white'
- Cean beathra go dhxeathair. /kean beatʰra go dʰɬeatʰajr/ 'The man is walking'
- Cean bheathra go mblaoighne. /kean bʰeatʰra go ᵐblaojgʰne/ 'A man is speaking'
(go+prenasalization literally means 'in')
Prepositions
- 'in': go (+E) + an = ni, go + na = in
- 'at': bho (+mut), ra, ar
- 'on': i (+L), i + an = la, i + na = al
- 'with (com)': ro (+ no mut) + an = ca, ro + na = ac
- 'to': eis (+no mut) + an = sa, eis + na = as
- 'like': qe (+no mut) + an = xa, qe + na = ax
- 'from': ho (+E), fa, af
- 'with (inst), by': no, ba, ab
Inflected prepositions
I, you, he/she, this, that, we.ex, we.in, you, they
niúr, néiq, near, neannsa, neann, néil, néidh, néibh, neanna
cúr, cóiq, cór, cónnsa, cónn, cóil, cóidh, cóibh, cónna
qiúr, qéiq, qear, qeannsa, qeann, qéil, qéidh, qéibh, qeanna
Tense particles also inflect:
ceis: c(eis)iúr, ceisiq/cíq, c(eis)ear, c(eis)eannsa, c(eis)eann, ceisil/cíl, ceisidh/cídh, c(eis)ibh/cíbh, c(eis)eanna
éadh: é(adh)úr, éiq, éar, éannsa, éann, éil, éidh, éibh, éanna
liobh: liúr, líq, liar, liannsa, liann, líl, lídh, líbh, lianna
fo: fúr, fóiq, fór, fónnsa, fónn, fóil, fóidh, fóibh, fónna
Adverbs
Adverbs are marked with the ending -ach.
Verbs
An Bhlaoighne verbs have only 2 principal parts: the imperative and the verbal noun. Dictionaries cite the verbal noun in the form that follows the definite article an. All verbal nouns are 3rd declension feminine.
pól, an phólanna = to fall
xe+L for pluractionality, combines with go to form qo+L
Fon lachnamh go dhsianna 'the worker builds' (unmarked for pluractionality, but often means the building happens once or to one thing)
Fon lachnamh qo shianna (the worker builds often/many things)
The citation form is the imperative:
- Sia! 'Build (thou) it!'
- The plural is formed with -ibh: Siaibh! 'Build (ye)!' This is lost in Dheofáid.
- Xe shia! 'Build (thou) them!'
- Aoigh! 'Run (thou)!'
- Xe h-aoighibh! (proscribed but common: Xe h-aoigh!) 'Run, you people!'
The preterite tense, which uses ergative and VOS syntax, is formed with cho + N + imperative or xeach + N + imperative:
- Cho dhsia ab lachnamh (The workers built something)
- Xeach dhsia ab lachnamh (The workers built many things)
- Cho dhsia an bpairín ab lachnamh (The workers built the house)
- Cho dhsiann ab lachnamh (The workers built it)
- Prescriptively: Xeach dhsianna ab lachnamh (The workers built them) vs Xeach dhsiann ab lachnamh (The workers built the same thing over and over). However, people usually say the latter for both senses.
Translating "be"
Derivational morphology
- -dhár: relating to, full of
- ceifheardhár = loving
- -aid: VM
- -áid: VN for verbs ending in -adh
- -anna, -na/ne, -air, -aid: verbal noun suffixes
- -amh: agentive
- -ín: places
- -í: adjective
- -t(h)(e)ar: places? (from Naeng)
Syntax
An Bhlaoighne is strictly head-initial.
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Dependent clauses
Conjunctions, "infinitive clauses"
Fronting
Focusing
Numerals
Ordinals are formed by affixing the circumfix ro-[root]-ín. (ro- does not mutate). This construction literally means "of the nth place" using the place suffix -ín.
- 0 = dírabh /di:rabʰ/ (ordinal: ro-dírabhaín)
- 1 = óis /o:js/ (ordinal: róisín)
- 2 = réix /re:jɬ/ (ordinal: ro-réixín)
- 3 = daobhe /daobʰe/, daobh (ordinal: ro-daobhín)
- 4 = fuín /fwi:n/ (ordinal: ro-fuínín)
- 5 = seamh /seamʰ/ (ordinal: ro-seamhaín)
- 6 = taca /taka/ (ordinal: ro-tacaín)
- 7 = óista n-óis /o:jsta no:js/ (ordinal: róistanóisín)
- 8 = óista réix /o:jsta re:jɬ/ (ordinal: róistaréixín)
- 9 = óista ndaobh /o:jsta ⁿdaobʰe/
- 10 = óista bhfuín /o:jsta bʰfwi:n/
- 11 = óista dhseamh /o:jsta dʰseamʰ/
- 12 = réixta /re:jɬta/
- 18 = daobheta /daobʰeta/ or daobhta /daobʰta/
- 24 = fuínta /fwi:nta/
- 30 = seamhta /seamʰta/
- 36 = gról /gro:l/
- 37 = gról óis /gro:l o:js/
- 38 = gról réix /gro:l re:jɬ/
...
- 72 = réix gról
...
- 1295 = seamhta dhseamh gról seamhta dhseamh
- 1296 = qaoiche /tɬaojkʰe/
Example texts
Modern An Bhlaoighne
Modern An Bhlaoighne, or An Bhlaoighne do Dheofáid (pronounced /fl̤ːn θɪvʊid̪/, or /fl̤ːnvʊid̪/ in rapid speech) is the most popular in-universe conlang in Future Tricin/Crackfic Tricin and has more native speakers in Cualuav than many natlangs. Its pronunciation is much simpler and more eroded but its orthography is pretty much the same as An Bhlaoighne, which makes for some really bloated spellings, and even whole words can be silent, like "na" which serves as a noun marker in written Dheofáid.
An Dheofáid uses a version of Square Word Calligraphy.
An Dheofáid has no noun genders or declensions; the definite plural is the only form of a noun that survives (except in the occasional instance where the definite singular becomes a singulative).
Diachronics
Full on e/i and o/u mergers, including ei->í, ea->ia, aoi->aui etc. followed by Khmerization? Dheofáid needs as much orthographic vowel craziness as English or Khmer
Phonology
Initially all 4 stop series of An Bhlaoighne remain distinct: t th d dh become /t̪⁼ t̪ʰ ð θ/. However, posttonic t and d both become /d̪/, and posttonic th and dh both become /ð/.
Early Dheofáid has suprasegmental breathy voice deriving from post-tonic breathy voiced consonants bh dh fh gh mh sh: rámhann 'its homology' becomes /r̤̤m̤n/ but rámann 'its porch' becomes /raɨmən/. Breathy voice conditions a vowel split in later Dheofáid, as in Old Khmer to Modern Khmer. The phonology is otherwise not too different from Brythonic Celtic languages. There are lots of vowel/diphthong mergers though some An Bhlaoighne monophthongs turned into diphthongs like í /ei/.
Silent gh
Dheofáid has vowel coloring from former gh - íogh sounds like /iw/.
Consonant mergers and splits
q and x get merged completely into Welsh ll
c, g and ch undergo a broad/slender split: cealim sounds like /tʃələm/
Orthography
In addition to the standard orthography, An Dheofáid uses Ann An Leannathaimh na Fiolltagh [ɪn l̪anðɪm fɛl̪t̪ʰe] (Children's Alphabet) which is more phonetic. The An Leannathaimh na Fiolltagh is also a romanization but has various invented and Greek letters for sounds not present in An Bhlaoighne.
The An Leannathaimh na Fiolltagh is standard in some parts of Cualuav/Cualand.
Grammar
Dheofáid has part of speech markers like Esperanto, but they're standalone words and are silent. Some of these part of speech markers are
- na for nouns
- an for proper, singulative and mass nouns
- do for adjectives and subordinate clauses -- it was originally a relative clause marker
Number is not marked morphologically in Dheofáid. However, pluractionality is mamdatory.
Sociolinguistics
Speakers of Dheofáid think An Bhlaoighne is pronounced like it.