Modern Ravenish

Middle Ravenish
tiudiskon
Pronunciation	[tiy̯.diʃ.køn]
Created by	wfosøra
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Proto-Ravenish Old Ravenish Middle Ravenish Middle Ravenish
Early form	Middle Ravenish
Writing system	Latin

Ravenish (autoglossonym: tiudiskon; Ravenish: [tiy̯.diʃ.køn) is a Germanic language, with strong influence from Finnish. It is the result of a prolonged contact among members of both groups after the Ravenish tribe migrated to the area that is now North Ostrobothnia. These connections slowly formed the modern language, which, under influence of Finnish for centuries, led to the innovation of several new forms, such as a conditional verb form and definiteness distinctions in nouns.

Introduction

Goals

• Fun
• Learn more Germanic

Setting

• North Ostrobothnia

Inspiration

• Finnish
• Proto-Germanic
• My love for old Germanic languages

Summary of changes from Proto-Germanic

All case endings are fully dropped, Genitive and Dative are marked through affixes, nominative and accusative are marked through vowel harmony.

Etymology

The language name derives from the same source as German Deutsch, þiudiskaz. The English name is in reference to a cultural aspect of the people, their unusually large reverence for Ravens, they place an oddly high importance on Ravens even for a Germanic tribe.

Phonology

Orthography

Orthography

IPA	Letter
/ɑ, æ/	ä, a
/d/	d
/ɤ, e/	ë, e
/f/	f
/g, gʷ/	g, gv
/h, hʷ/	h, hv
/i/	i
/j/	j
/k, kʷ/	k, kv
/l/	l
/m/	m
/n/	n
/o, ø/	ö, o
/p/	p
/r/	r
/s, ʃ/	s
/t/	t
/u, y/	ü, u
/ʋ/	v, b

'ṿ' is often used in educational texts to help distinguish from a consonant cluster.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial		Dental /alveolar		postalv. /Palatal		Velar /Glottal
Nasal		m		n				(ŋ)¹, (ŋʷ²)
Stop	p		t /t̪/, t̪ʷ				k, kṿ /kʷ/	g, gṿ /gʷ/
Fricative	f		s, sṿ /sʷ/		(ʃ)³		h, hṿ /hʷ/
Approximant		v /ʋ/		l		j
Trill				r

1. allophone of /n/ before /k/
2. allophone of /n/ before /kʷ/
3. allophone of /s/ before velars and at word ends

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front				Back
	unrounded		rounded		unrounded		rounded
	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː	y	yː			u	uː
mid	e	eː	ø	øː	ɤ	ɤː	o	oː
Open	æ	æː			ɑ	ɑː

Diphthongs

Diphthongs	Ending with /i/	Ending with /u/	Ending with /y/	Opening
Starting with /ɑ/	⟨ai⟩ [ɑi̯]	⟨au⟩ [ɑu̯]
Starting with /æ/	⟨äi⟩ [æi̯]		⟨äy⟩ [æy̯]
Starting with /o/	⟨oi⟩ [oi̯]	⟨ou⟩ [ou̯]
Starting with /e/	⟨ei⟩ [ei̯]	⟨eu⟩ [eu̯]	⟨ey⟩ [ey̯]
Starting with /ø/	⟨öi⟩ [øi̯]		⟨öy⟩ [øy̯]
Starting with /u/	⟨ui⟩ [ui̯]			⟨uo⟩ [uo̯]
Starting with /i/		⟨iu⟩ [iu̯]	⟨iy⟩ [iy̯]	⟨ie⟩ [ie̯]

Prosody

Stress

Stress, like in PG, still lies solely on the first syllable unless prefixed, where stress moves with the root word.

Morphology

Take ALL forms with '^?' with caution, the proto-Germanic form is unknown so this is me doing very, VERY basic comparisons to figure out a Possible form.

Pronouns

Colloquial personal pronouns

			Nominative	Accusative
first person	singular		mük	muk
	dual		ünk	unk
	plural		üns	uns
second person	singular		mükṿ	mukṿ
	dual		ünkṿ	unkṿ
	plural		ünsṿ	unsṿ
third person	singular		ür	ur
	plural		üür	uur
reflexive			së	se

Nouns

Stems are named in accordance with their PG equivalent.

z stems

Merged with the r-stems because of the roticization of final z, thus this is no longer used.

Syntax

Constituent order

The word order is mostly free, the base order is SVO, but this is subject to change when importance needs to be stressed on one word.

Example texts

Beowulf Sentence 1

Language	Sentence 1 of Beowulf
English	Indeed (or 'Yes!')! We of the Spear-Danes, in days old, had our great kings who discovered the glory of what that man's courage could do.
Old English	Hƿæt! Ƿē Gār-Dena in geār‐dagum þēod‐cyninga ⁠þrym gefrūnon, hu ðā æðelingas ellen fremedon.
Ravenish
Pronunciation

Other resources

• Swadesh
• Phrases
• lemmas