Modern Ravenish: Difference between revisions

|nativename=''teudon-suomi''

|pronunciation= teu̯.don.suo̯.mi

|pronunciation_key = w:IPA chart

'''Ravenish''' ([[w:endonym|endonym]]: ''teudon-suomi''; <small>Ravenish:</small> [[w:IPA chart|[teu̯.don.suo̯.mi]]) is a [[w:Finnish language|Finno]]-[[w:Germanic language|Germanic]] [[w:sprachbund|sprachbund]]. It is the result of a prolonged contact among members of both groups after the Ravenish tribe, at around 400AD, migrated to what is now [[w:North Ostrobothnia|North Ostrobothnia]]. These connections slowly formed the modern language, which, under influence of Finnish for centuries, led to the complete replacement of the native grammar with that of Finnish.

The language name is a compound of teudo and suomi, teudo being from Proto-Germanic *þeudō, and suomi from the identical Finnish word, it would translate as "Germanic's Finnish"

|+ Early Modern

| style="border-right: 0;" | a, ä || style="border-left: 0;" |

! /e/

| style="border-right: 0;" | e || style="border-left: 0;" |

! /h/

| style="border-right: 0;" | h || style="border-left: 0;" |

! /k/

| style="border-right: 0;" | k, g¹ || style="border-left: 0;" |

| style="border-right: 0;" | n, *m || style="border-left: 0;" |

| style="border-right: 0;" | o, ö || style="border-left: 0;" |

! /s/

| style="border-right: 0;" | s, f¹ || style="border-left: 0;" |

| style="border-right: 0;" | t, *d || style="border-left: 0;" |

| style="border-right: 0;" | u, y || style="border-left: 0;" |

| style="border-right: 0;" | v, b¹ || style="border-left: 0;" |

* letters with '*' are only pronounced that way at the end of words, done as a way to preserve etymology.

 

# retained for etymology, 'g' may be /g/ in loan words, f may be /f/ in loans, b is identical to 'v' except in loans (where it may be /b/)

 

* Many times letters will be marked when pronounced in a non-native way in loans, usually with a dot or acute, so 'ġ', 'ḃ', and 'ḟ'.

| colspan="1" | [[w:Voiceless alveolar stop|t̪]], [[w:Voiced alveolar stop|d]]

| colspan="1" | [[w:Voiceless velar stop|k]]

| colspan="1" |  

| colspan="1" | [[w:Voiced labial approximant|ʋ]]²

# Can be pronounced as /w/ or /v/ and be understood by natives ( I pronounce it as /v/ since I can't quite get /ʋ/)

! colspan="2" | [[w:Front vowel|front]]

! colspan="2" rowspan=2 | [[w:Back vowel|back]]

! colspan="1" | [[w:unrounded vowel|<small>unround</small>]]

! colspan="1" | [[w:rounded vowel|<small>round</small>]]

! [[w:Close vowel|close]]

! [[w:Open vowel|open]]

===Morphology===

====Pronouns====

! colspan=3 | !! Nominative

! rowspan=2 | first<br>person !! colspan=2 | singular  

| i

| vir

! rowspan=2 | second<br>person !! colspan=2 | singular

| tuu

| juur

! rowspan=6 | third<br>person !! rowspan=3 | singular !! masculine

| ir

| sii

| it

| iir

| ijaar

| ijo

| se

 

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

|-

! colspan=3 | reflexive

| se

Gender marking has become relatively rare in everyday speech, while additional affixes for it do exist, they're treated as unnecessary unless the distinction is important to the given information.

! colspan=3 | Grammatical

| -

| -/-n

! Genitive

| -n

|-

| -(t)a/-(t)ä

|-

|-

| -ssa/-ssä

|-

| -sta/-stä

|-

| -an, -en, etc...

|-

 

Verb declensions haven't changed much, the dual has fell out of use outside of formal situations, where even there it's rare, the dual is sometimes still used casually for couples, like 'they're walking together (as partners)' is {translation here}

====Adjectives and Determiners====

====Adverbs====

====Numbers====

===Syntax===

====Constituent order====

====Noun phrase====

 

| English || Indeed! We Spear-Danes, in days old, had great kings who heard of the glory of what that man's courage did.

| Old English || Hwæt! wē gārdena in geārdagum þēodcyninga ⁠þrym gefrūnon, hu ðā æðelingas ellen fremedon.

| Early Modern || hvat! me gairdien yn järdiä teudkunungarien trum gafreegun, hvo to atulungaret aljana framjanivat.

| Pronunciation || hʋɑt me kɑi̯r.die̯n yn jær.diæ̯ teu̯d.ku.nuŋ.ŋɑ.rie̯n trun kɑs.reː.kun hʋo to ɑ.tu.luŋ.ŋɑ.ret ɑl.jɑ.nɑ srɑm.jɑ.ni.ʋɑt

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