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|creator = [[User:IlL|Inthar]]
Premise: What if a syllable-timed tonal language
|name = {{SUBPAGENAME}}
* syncoped and became an Old Irish-esque liturgical language
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* it develops a Tiberian Hebrew-like reading tradition which changes the original phonology a lot
|setting = [[Verse:Méich Bhaonnáiqh]]
* and gets revived from a secondary reading derived from that
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|pronunciation =
|region = Europe; North America
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|familycolor=Indo-European
|fam1=Indo-European
|fam2=Celtic
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'''Shemroghian''', natively ''thabbåthå Šemrăghåkhå'' (< PCel sindā tangwāts swemrogākā 'own region's language') is a vernacular in Méich Bhaonnáiqh, inagined as 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 Ăvišyå (from *Awiswiyā, [[Verse:Aoife|Aoife]]'s Proto-Celtic interpretation of her own name). It's a fairly typical IE language.
Use for some sort of critique
 
[[Category:Angai]]
''πăraqliτ'' = advocate, attorney, etc.
 
''askolå, asτråτeghyå, ukhlusin''
 
borrow ''Mabinogion'' as ''Mabhnoghin''?
 
borrow -ium/-ion as -in: opsarion > uπsărin 'culinary fish', -in is also a diminutive which is used a lot
 
sP sT sq -> asP asT asq (skhole > askola)
 
change o to a? bodhi > badhi
 
== Phonology ==
Consonants: same as Aramaic but no pharyngeals and no ts and added emphatic p; emphatic stops written π τ (capital Ʈ) q.
 
v = bh
 
Coronal stops/spirants are dental.
 
Native words only use bgdkpt stops which lenite like in Aramaic; φ > h
 
Vowels: i e a å o u ă /i e æ A o u ä/
 
Ultimate stress
 
== Morphology ==
=== Nouns ===
Nouns have 3 genders (m, f, n), 2 numbers (sg, pl) and 3 cases (nom, gen, prep/dat), and also inflect for definiteness. The dative is used for indirect objects, and sometimes for prepositional objects. When a preposition can use both the dative and the accusative, the dative denotes being at the location and the nominative denotes motion towards the location.
 
turn pl acc to pl nom (happened to Irish definite articles)
 
The pl gen of nouns declines as an -o/-ā adjective.
 
The definite article is ''hid-/hiC-'' (when not leniting) or ''hī'' (when leniting).
==== -o stems ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''map'' (m.) 'boy' (< {{recon|makkʷos}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''map''<br/>''mappăsen''||''mappun''<br/>''mappănun''
|-
!|Genitive
|''mappi''<br/>''mappăni''||''mappåkh''<br/>''mappănen''
|-
!|Dative
|''mappu''<br/>''mappănu''||''mappåbh''<br/>''mappănåbh''
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''dun'' (n.) 'fort' (< {{recon|dūnom}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''dun''<br/>''dunănen''||''dunå''<br/>''dunănå''
|-
!|Genitive
|''duni''<br/>''dunăni''||''dunåkh''<br/>''dunănen''
|-
!|Dative
|''dunu''<br/>''dunănu''||''dunåbh''<br/>''dunănåbh''
|}
 
==== -yo stems ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''ári'' 'lion' (random semantic shift from {{recon|aryos}} 'noble one')
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''ári''||''aryun''
|-
!|Genitive
|''aryi''||''aryåkh''
|-
!|Dative
|''aryu''||''aryåbh''
|}
 
==== -ā stems ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''breghå'' (f.) 'power, might' (< {{recon|brigā}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''breghå''<br/>''breghănå''||''breghån''<br/>''breghănån''
|-
!|Genitive
|''breghåh''<br/>''breghăsåh''||''breghåkh''<br/>''breghănåkh''
|-
!|Dative
|''breghe''<br/>''breghăne''||''breghåbh''<br/>''breghănåbh''
|}
 
==== -i stems ====
Old m/f:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''knåm'' (m.) 'bone' (< {{recon|knāmis}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''knåm''||''knåmin''
|-
!|Genitive
|''knåmeh''||''knåmekh''
|-
!|Dative
|''knåmi''||''knåmebh''
|}
 
Old neuters:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''mor'' (n.) 'sea' (< {{recon|mori}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''mor''||''moryå''
|-
!|Genitive
|''măreh''||''mărekh''
|-
!|Dative
|''mări''||''mărebh''
|}
 
==== -ī stems ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''bledhăni'' (f.) 'year' (< {{recon|blēdanī}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''bledhăni''||''bledhănin''
|-
!|Genitive
|''bledhanyåh''||''bledhănekh''
|-
!|Dative
|''bledhanye''||''bledhănebh''
|}
 
==== -u-stems ====
merge with o-stems at the cost of making gen sg more unpredictable (-i or -o)
 
m/f:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''dăréseτ'' (m.) 'door' (< {{recon|dworestus}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''dăréseτ''||''dărisτun''
|-
!|Genitive
|''dărisτoh''||''dărisτåkh''
|-
!|Dative
|''dărisτu''||''dărisτåbh''
|}
neuter:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''eydh'' (n.) 'fire' (< {{recon|aidu}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''eydh''||''eydhå''
|-
!|Genitive
|''eydhoh''||''eydhåkh''
|-
!|Dative
|''eydhu''||''eydhåbh''
|}
 
==== Consonant stems ====
some rethematize to ā feminines
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''minå'' (f.) 'month' (< {{recon|mīns}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''minå''||''minån''
|-
!|Genitive
|''minåh''||''minåkh''
|-
!|Dative
|''mine''||''minåbh''
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''kahăru'' (f.) 'sheep' (< {{recon|kaφerūxs}})
|-
!| !! Singular !! Plural
|-
!|Nominative
|''kahăru''||''kahăråkhån''
|-
!|Genitive
|''kahăråkh''||''kahăråkhåkh''
|-
!|Dative
|''kahăråkh''||''kahăråkhåbh''
|}
 
=== Adjectives ===
similar to nouns, but gen pl uses the original PCel ending
==== -o/-ā stems ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''bån'' 'white' (< {{recon|bānos}})
|-
!| !! sg. m. !! sg. f. !! sg. n. !! pl. m. !! pl. f. || pl. n.
|-
!|Nominative
|''bån''||''bånå''||''bån''||''bånun''||''bånån''||''bånå''
|-
!|Genitive
|''båni''||''bånåh''||''båni''||colspan=3|''bån''
|-
!|Dative
|''bånu''||''båne''||''bånu''||colspan=3|''bånåbh''
|}
==== -yo/-yā stems ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''bódhi'' 'yellow' (< {{recon|bodyos}})
|-
!| !! sg. m. !! sg. f. !! sg. n. !! pl. m. !! pl. f. || pl. n.
|-
!|Nominative
|''bódhi''||''bodhyå''||''bódhi''||''bodhyun''||''bodhyån''||''bodhyå''
|-
!|Genitive
|''bodhyi''||''bodhyåh''||''bodhyi''||colspan=3|''bódhi''
|-
!|Dative
|''bodhyu''||''bodhye''||''bodhyu''||colspan=3|''bodhyåbh''
|}
==== -i/-ī stems ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''math'' 'good' (< {{recon|matis}})
|-
!| !! sg. m. !! sg. f. !! sg. n. !! pl. m. !! pl. f. || pl. n.
|-
!|Nominative
|''math''||''măthi''||''math''||colspan=3|''măthin''
|-
!|Genitive
|''mătheh''||''mathyåh''||''mătheh''||colspan=3|''mathi''
|-
!|Dative
|''măthi''||''mathye''||''măthi''||colspan=3|''măthebh''
|}
==== -u stems ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ ''dobh'' 'black' (< {{recon|dubus}})
|-
!| !! sg. m. !! sg. f. !! sg. n. !! pl. m. !! pl. f. || pl. n.
|-
!|Nominative
|colspan=3|''dobh''||colspan=3|''dăbhun''
|-
!|Genitive
|colspan=3|''dăbhoh''||colspan=3|''dobh''
|-
!|Dative
|colspan=3|''dăbhu''||colspan=3|''dăbhåbh''
|}
 
=== Verbs ===
similar to Irish tenses with no compound tenses
* present: mārām, mārāsi, mārāti, mārāmu, mārāte, mārānti, mārātor -> måri, måråh, mårå, mårån, måråth, mårant/måratt, måråthor -> måri mi, måråh tu, måre/måri, mårån nih, måråth ših, måratt eh, mårăthor
* preterite
* future
* imperfect
* conditional
* imperative
== Syntax ==
SVO; mainly JBA features, but with some remnants of Proto-Celtic syntax (as Aoife imagines it)
 
[[Category:Celtic languages]][[Category:Indo-European languages]]

Latest revision as of 12:04, 26 October 2024

Pages with the prefix 'Flei' in the and 'Talk' namespaces:

Talk:

Premise: What if a syllable-timed tonal language

  • syncoped and became an Old Irish-esque liturgical language
  • it develops a Tiberian Hebrew-like reading tradition which changes the original phonology a lot
  • and gets revived from a secondary reading derived from that

Use for some sort of critique