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'''Modern Hivantish''' is the most widely spoken descendant of [[Hivantish]], and it's inspired by Modern Greek and Icelandic, drawing on phonological, diachronic and grammatical similarities between the two languages.
'''Modern Hivantish''' is the most widely spoken descendant of [[Hivantish]], and it's inspired by Modern Greek and Icelandic, drawing on phonological, diachronic and grammatical similarities between the two languages.
Modern Hivantish has two registers, a literary one drawing heavily from Ancient Hivantish and making use of mostly native vocabulary (c.f. Háfrónska and Katharevousa), and spoken Hivantish which has lots of loanwords from English and Irish.


==Todo==
==Todo==

Revision as of 09:55, 4 December 2021

Modern Hivantish is the most widely spoken descendant of Hivantish, and it's inspired by Modern Greek and Icelandic, drawing on phonological, diachronic and grammatical similarities between the two languages.

Modern Hivantish has two registers, a literary one drawing heavily from Ancient Hivantish and making use of mostly native vocabulary (c.f. Háfrónska and Katharevousa), and spoken Hivantish which has lots of loanwords from English and Irish.

Todo

  • Marked nominatives as in Greek and Icelandic
  • The case inventory is reduced to nom/acc/dat/gen; definite article (postposed but a separate word)
  • Retracted /s/; dental fricatives
  • Ancient Hivantish y from *ū -> i (spelled y)