Slavo-Japanese

Niông is a hypothetical Cymrosemblant descendant of Japanese, à la Efenol.

Suveden ningêla dhidhûdha uvarnârenist, mad blaudhaudha songent cêridhe. Ningêla saugerareda rizaed lauzinne, mad caudhauzinagerevaran tâini dauaun saezinne.

Long vowel reflexes: ā ī ō oi ē ai ū ui > /aɨ ei aw ei ai ui aɨ ɨ:/

Slender consonant reflexes: ky gy ch j sh ny py by my hy ry > /tʃ dʒ θ ð nʲ pl bl vl ɬ l/ <tsi j th dd si n pl bl vl lh l>

Numbers: 1. eith 2. ni 3. sañ 4. ioñ 5. go 6. rog 7. saith (< si:θ < shichi) 8. wyth (< aiθ < hachi) 9. tsieu 10. ddeu

• kutsu /kɯ̥t͡sɯ/ "shoe" > cysu (voicing devoiced vowels to y?) or chu?
• atsu "pressure" > *ass > âz (random change)
  • 圧力 âzreg "physical pressure"
• çi̥kaɴ "pessimism" > *sgâ > ysgâ "despair"
• kʲi̥ɕit͡sɯ "temperament" > csitsu > chisu
• kɯɕi̥kɯmo "strangely" > cysguf
• eien "eternity" > aiê
  • eien-no "eternal", eien-ni "eternally" > aien

Internal history

Rising political instability in 21st-century Japan eventually led to societal collapse, and worse, a civil war that produced many Japanese refugees to Canada and northern Europe. No longer under influence of standardization, the Japanese they spoke underwent rapid changes over generations. Niông is a descendant of the Japanese spoken by the Canadian Japanese refugees.

Nouns

Cases

• nom is -a or -la
• acc is -o or -lo
• genitive/dative is -n
• locative/instrumental is either -dde or -nne
• lative is -ngath < ni mukatte
• comitative is -d/-nt
• associative plural is -dwyth/-twyth < -tachi