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Scellan-English lexicon
Swadesh list
Scellan | |
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bris Eivo | |
Pronunciation | [[Help:IPA|bris ɛivɔ]] |
Created by | IlL |
Setting | Verse:Tricin |
Extinct | 220 v.T. |
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/
- bris = language (Netagin)
- jawþ = throat, language
- ows = if
- sos = man
- søuv = dog
- 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 uə ui/
a e i o w ø u y ai ei øu aw ew iw ow ia wa wi
Orthography
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.)
- gwad = we (inc.)
- swad = youse
- hawr = they
Adjectives
Adjectives do not 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
Present
The present uses the unmarked form of the verb followed by the subject: Ex. Mol naw ci duvwŋ means "I thank the teacher".
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
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.