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Nithish (''niδiske ṛstine'', from the word ''niδya'' "one's own") is an Indo-European language in the Nithic branch, a satem branch in a clade with [[Azalic]]. It's spoken in Nithland (''Niδyaskema''), a parallel-Earth Ukraine and Belarus. | Nithish (''niδiske ṛstine'', from the word ''niδya'' "one's own") is an Indo-European language in the Nithic branch, a satem branch in a clade with [[Azalic]]. It's spoken in Nithland (''Niδyaskema''), a parallel-Earth Ukraine and Belarus. | ||
Modern Nithish is notable for mostly preserving PIE's syllabic resonants. However, Nithish consonants display various innovations including Grimm's law taken a step further (as in Dutch in our timeline). | |||
==Numbers== | ==Numbers== | ||
aina, twā, δriye, γeδure, vaiγe, zes, zevu, astu, nȯ, teγu | aina, twā, δriye, γeδure, vaiγe, zes, zevu, astu, nȯ, teγu | ||
==Grammar== | |||
Nithish has three noun genders, termed animate, inanimate and collective by native grammarians. These correspond to masculine, neuter and feminine genders in other Indo-European languages. The correlation between grammatical gender and biological gender is much less in Nithish than in other IE languages, due to the influence of Uralic languages. | |||
As in Latin and Greek, Nithish has various declension paradigms for nouns. Some common ones are: | |||
*first declension nouns - inanimate suffixless, animate ''-a'', collective ''-e'' | |||
*second declension nouns - ''-i'', independent of gender | |||
*third declension nouns - ''-u'', independent of gender | |||
Gender has been almost completely regularized in Nithish, again due to Uralic influence -- it is correlated with morphology, so all nouns ending in ''-e'' are collective, even nouns like ''aste'' (bone), which derives from the Old Nithish neuter noun ''haste''. | |||