Flei

Flei
Created by	Inthar
Setting	Verse:Méich Bhaonnáiqh
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Flei

Swemroghe-thabbåthå (< PCel swe-mrogi-tangwāts 'own region's language') is a vernacular in Méich Bhaonnáiqh belonging to the Celtic family. It's inspired by Aramaic and also has Greek and Latin loans that look like Greco-Latin loans in Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic. It's the native language of the player character Ăvisvyå (from *Awiswiyā, Aoife's Proto-Celtic interpretation of her own name).

Phonology

Consonants: same as Aramaic but no pharyngeals and no ts and added emphatic p; emphatic stops written π τ (capital Ʈ) q.

Coronal stops/spirants are dental.

Native words are inspired by PCel and only use bgdkpt stops which lenite like in Aramaic; ph > h

Vowels: i e a å o u ă /i e æ A o u ä/

Penult stress

Morphology

Nouns

-å nouns (-(y)ā)

• brigā -> בּרגא băreghå
• brigam -> brigę -> בּרגי băreghi
• brigāms -> בּרגן băreghån (looks like fem pl indef)
• brigās -> בּרגהּ băreghåh (looks like 3sg.f suffix)
• brigākos -> בּרגך băreghåkh (looks like 2sg.m suffix)
• brigai -> בּרגי băreghe (m pl const)

Verbs

• mārām, mārāsi, mārāti, mārāmu, mārāte, mārānti, mārātor -> måri, måråh, mårå, mårån, måråth, mårant/måratt, måråthor -> måri mi, måråh tu, måră'e, mårån nih, måråth wih, måratt eh, mårăthor