Scellan

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Scellan
bris Eivo
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|bris ɛivɔ]]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Extinct	220 v.T.
Language family	Quihum Talmic Thensaric Scellan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qth

Scellan is the dominant modern Talmic language; it descends from Old Eivo. It's inspired by Icelandic, Welsh and Hmong.

Todo

• in reócht > rewtt /rɛwht/
• in már > mawr /mawl/ "tree"
• á > aw
• ae > ai
• ai > e
• aei, ái > ei
• éi > oi > ua
• ó > ow
• u > w
• ú > u /y/
• jawþ = fancier word for language
• Old Eivo prefixes remain productive.

Background

See also: Proto-Talmic.

Phonology

Consonants

m n ŋ pm tn kŋ (m n ŋ mm nn ŋŋ hm hn hŋ)

ʟ r~l χ r̥~ɬ (l r ll rr)

ph th kh (p t c)

hp ht hk (pp tt cc)

f θ s x h (f þ s ch h)

p t k (b d g)

v ð z j (v ð z j)

Vowels

/a ɛ i ɔ u œ y ə ai ei øy au eu iu ou iə yə uə/

a e i o w ø u y ai ei øu aw ew iw ow ia ua wa

Morphology

Main article: Thensarian/Morphology

Morphology

Eivo has no grammatical gender and no mutation.

Pronouns

• naw = I
• fiar = you
• hav = he
• hi = she
• ce = it
• cawv = we (exc.)
• guad = we (inc.)
• suad = youse
• hawr = they

Adjectives

Adjectives do nor inflect at all.

Copula

Eivo has no copula. Instead, the "predicate" or the focused constituent is fronted.

D'iant ci duvwŋ. = The teacher is sleeping.

Verbs

The Eivo verbal system is very different from Tíogall, and much closer to Bhadhagha.

Eivo analogized the analytic forms of verbs to all persons, and fused the personal pronoun with the verb.

Eivo is not split-ergative, unlike Tíogall.

Perfect tenses use the construction tänn followed by the verbal noun.

Present

molaigh ná -> molana "I thank"
molaigh fiar -> moler "thou thankest"
molaigh -> molu (he), moli (she), molak (it), molaar (they)
molaigh ámh -> molau "we (exc.) thank"
molaigh ná ag fiar -> molaner "we (inc.) thank"
molaigh séid -> molad "ye thank"
Impersonal: molaav "one thanks"

Analogously for front-vowel verbs (the following example is synem 'tune'):

synmänä, synmer, synmy, synmi, synmäk, ssynmäär, synmäy, synmäner, synmäd, synmääv.

Past

The past tense is marked by the particle go or g' which is used before the verb. This comes from a construction that translates to "it was the case that ...", which was used in pre-modern Bhadhagha.

Future

The future tense is derived from the Old Bhadhagha future tense:

moltana, molter, molta, moltaner, moltad, moltar, moltaav

Verbal noun

The verbal noun is much more regular than in Bhadhagha, and is consistently marked with -ax.

Syntax

Eivo is head-initial (with exceptions in poetry). It usually uses VSO word order; the focused constituent is fronted.

Noun phrase

ci and to are used as determiners before the noun. The "unspecified"/"irrealis" determiner to is used when asking question or in negative statements.