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Revision as of 02:12, 14 October 2024


Middle Ravenish
tiudiskon
Ravenish flag.png
Pronunciation[tiy̯.diʃ.køn]
Created bywfosøra
Indo-European
Early form
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Ravenish (autoglossonym: tiudiskon; Ravenish: [tiy̯.diʃ.køn) is a Germanic language, with strong influence from Finnish. It is the result of a prolonged contact among members of both groups after the Ravenish tribe migrated to the area that is now North Ostrobothnia. These connections slowly formed the modern language, which, under influence of Finnish for centuries, led to the innovation of several new forms, such as a conditional verb form and definiteness distinctions in nouns.

Introduction

Goals

  • Fun
  • Learn more Germanic

Setting

Inspiration

  • Finnish
  • Proto-Germanic
  • My love for old Germanic languages

Summary of changes from Proto-Germanic

All case endings are fully dropped, Genitive and Dative are marked through affixes, nominative and accusative are marked through vowel harmony.

Etymology

The language name derives from the same source as German Deutsch, þiudiskaz. The English name is in reference to a cultural aspect of the people, their unusually large reverence for Ravens, they place an oddly high importance on Ravens even for a Germanic tribe.

Phonology

Orthography

Orthography
IPA Letter
/ɑ, æ/ ä, a
/d/ d
/ɤ, e/ ë, e
/f/ f
/g, gʷ/ g, gv
/h, hʷ/ h, hv
/i/ i
/j/ j
/k, kʷ/ k, kv
/l/ l
/m/ m
/n/ n
/o, ø/ ö, o
/p/ p
/r/ r
/s, ʃ/ s
/t/ t
/u, y/ ü, u
/ʋ/ v, b

'ṿ' is often used in educational texts to help distinguish from a consonant cluster.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes
Labial alveolar postalv.
/Palatal
Velar
/Glottal
Nasal m n (ŋ
Stop p t, d k, g
Fricative f s (ʃ h
Approximant ʋ l j
Trill r
  1. allophone of /n/ before /k/
  2. allophone of /n/ before /kʷ/
  3. allophone of /s/ before velars and at word ends

Vowels

Vowel phonemes
Front Back
unrounded rounded unrounded rounded
short long short long short long short long
Close i y u
mid e ø øː ɤ ɤː o
Open æ æː ɑ ɑː

Diphthongs

Diphthongs Ending with /i/ Ending with /u/ Ending with /y/ Opening
Starting with /ɑ/ ai [ɑi̯] au [ɑu̯]
Starting with /æ/ äi [æi̯] äy [æy̯]
Starting with /o/ oi [oi̯] ou [ou̯]
Starting with /e/ ei [ei̯] eu [eu̯] ey [ey̯]
Starting with /ø/ öi [øi̯] öy [øy̯]
Starting with /u/ ui [ui̯] uo [uo̯]
Starting with /i/ iu [iu̯] iy [iy̯] ie [ie̯]

Prosody

Stress

Stress, like in PG, still lies solely on the first syllable unless prefixed, where stress moves with the root word.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Take ALL forms with '?' with caution, the proto-Germanic form is unknown so this is me doing very, VERY basic comparisons to figure out a Possible form.

Pronouns

Colloquial personal pronouns
Nominative Accusative
first
person
singular mük muk
dual ünk unk
plural üns uns
second
person
singular mükṿ mukṿ
dual ünkṿ unkṿ
plural ünsṿ unsṿ
third
person
singular ür ur
plural üür uur
reflexive se

Nouns

Stems are named in accordance with their PG equivalent.

a stems

ō stems

ī/jō stems

i stems

u stems

ōn stems

īn stems

r stems

z stems

Merged with the r-stems because of the roticization of final z, thus this is no longer used.

Root nouns and consonant stems

Verbs

Adjectives and Determiners

Adverbs

Numbers

Syntax

Constituent order

The word order is mostly free, the base order is SVO, but this is subject to change when importance needs to be stressed on one word.

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Beowulf Sentence 1

Language Sentence 1 of Beowulf
English Indeed (or 'Yes!')! We of the Spear-Danes, in days old, had our great kings who discovered the glory of what that man's courage could do.
Old English Hƿæt! Ƿē Gār-Dena in geār‐dagum þēod‐cyninga ⁠þrym gefrūnon, hu ðā æðelingas ellen fremedon.
Ravenish
Pronunciation

Other resources