Tigol

Tigol/Swadesh list

Tigol/Lexicon

Tigol (Eevo: Tigol /tʰikɔ̃/, in the Eevosphere also called Old Eevo (Eevo: Eevo Dair /ˈɛɪvɔ taɪr/), is a Talmic language which arose from northern dialects of Thensarian. Its descendants are the modern Tigolic languages: Eevo, Anvirese, etc. Its aesthetics is based on Old Irish.

Primitive Eevo

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless		t /t/			c /k/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	φ /φ/		s /s/			h /h/
	voiced			[z]
Trill				r /r/
Approximant		v /ʋ/	l /l/		j /j/

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i /i/	ī /iː/			u /u/	ū /uː/
Mid	e /ɛ/				o /ɔ/
Open			a /a/	ā /aː/

The diphthongs are ae ao ei eo iu oe ui.

Todo

• tobynis = to be like
• Keep ħ from Thensarian? or change ħ to ŋ
• immer < *φimmirā < φinā mirā = now
• Verb prefixes:
  • ar-: on, at
  • (deut.) as-: telic
  • (prot.) de-, (deut.) do-: in, at
  • é-: with, co-
  • fin-/sin- = well, thoroughly
  • for-: causative, through
  • (prot.) ful-, (deut.) fol-: around, back
  • imm-: immediately
  • (prot.) gel-, (deut.) gol-: up, out
  • ro-: down
  • sol-: a causative
  • (prot.) su-, (deut.) so-: towards
  • (prot.) sur-, (deut.) sor-: back
  • (prot.) u(cc)-, (deut.) oc-: from
• Derivational affixes:
  • -ach = verbal noun
  • -aitt = adjectivizer
  • -all = verbal noun, also abstract noun?

Phonology

Consonants

• b c d f g l m n ŋ p r s t /b k d f g h l m n ŋ p r s t/
• "Lenition": ḃ ch ḋ fh ġ h ṁ ph sh th /bʰ kʰ dʰ fʰ gʰ h mʰ pʰ sʰ tʰ/
• "Eclipsis": ᵐb ᵑc ⁿd ᵑg ᵐf ᵐp ⁿs ⁿt /ᵐb ᵑk ⁿd ᵑg ᵐf ᵐp ⁿs ⁿt/
• Geminates: cc ll nn ŋŋ pp rr ss tt /kː lː nː ŋː pː rː sː tː/

Vowels

• a e i o u /a e i o u/
• á é í ó ú /aː eː iː oː uː/
• ai ei io oi ui
• ae ao ái éi eó éu ia ío íu iú ói oí ua úi uí

All five short vowels a e i o u could occur in a word-final unstressed syllable.

Morphology

Main article: Tigol/Morphology