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|name = Sairstír Celinese | |name = Sairstír Celinese | ||
|nativename = Elíthec Sairstíroth; Sairstíreg | |nativename = Elíthec Sairstíroth; Sairstíreg | ||
|pronunciation = [ | |pronunciation = [ˈəˈliːɦəx seiʳˈʂʈɨːɻʊ], [seiʳˈʂʈɨɻəɨ] | ||
|creator = A. Ayres | |creator = A. Ayres | ||
|setting = Lorech | |setting = Lorech | ||
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|states = Sairstír and Linheim, Elitho, Beichlë, Western Jinyero | |states = Sairstír and Linheim, Elitho, Beichlë, Western Jinyero | ||
|nation = Sairstír and Linheim | |nation = Sairstír and Linheim | ||
|speakers = | |speakers = 16,417,890 (Sairstír); up to 6 million émigrés elsewhere | ||
|date = 991 | |date = 991 | ||
|familycolor = #F2DC77 | |familycolor = #F2DC77 | ||
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'''Sairstír Celinese''' or '''Sairstirian''' (endonym: '''Elítheg Sairstíroth''' or '''Sairstíreg''' - sometimes referred to, particularly in Elitho, as '''Lônairesc''' [ | '''Sairstír Celinese''' or '''Sairstirian''' (endonym: '''Elítheg Sairstíroth''' or '''Sairstíreg''' - sometimes referred to, particularly in Elitho, as '''Lônairesc''' [ˈlo̝ːnɑɪɻəʂ]) because of its complex links with the language of Aír, is a broad term used to refer to those varieties of Modern Southwestern Elithoan Celinese spoken in the Free Commonwealth of Sairstír. | ||
A common three-way distinction is drawn between '''mailsairstíreg''' (lit. Soft Sairstirian), spoken in Wylombeir and the northern seaboard, '''stairsairstíreg''' (Broad Sairstirian, lit. Hard Sairstirian), a more divergent form from Standard Elithoan Celinese that has not undergone Elithoan sound changes and has conserved features of Old Airesc Celinese, and '''Eilíonlyn''', a very conservative Southern Celinese variety spoken on the island of Eilíon and the Darnorwach Peninsula. The term does not apply to minority languages spoken in Sairstír that derive separately from Proto-Tygenoci, such as Modern Old Tygenoci or the Linro languages. | |||
Sairstír's Celinese varieties, particularly eilíonlyn and stairsairstíreg, are of great interest to scholars of the Tygenoci language family because of the contrast between their conservation of Old Tygenoci and Old Airesc traits lost in Standard Elithoan Celinese, and the divergence from the rest of the family with sound changes unique to SSG and a large pool of Sairstír-specific vocabulary, a lot of which is derived from the language of the Sett minority. In this article, we will mostly consider Broad Sairstírian (SSG) unless otherwise specified. | |||
== Sound correspondences with Standard Elithoan Celinese == | |||
'''mh:''' <mh> in Middle Southern Elithoan became <f> [f~v] in Elithoan Celinese, but became [ʍ] in initial position and [m] elsewhere in most Sairstír Celinese varieties. Compare SEC '''sofen''' with SSG. '''somman''', '''hwair''' with '''fair''', '''hwyðí''' to '''fyðí''' '''syfoth''' with '''scymoth''', and '''lefrë''' with '''lemra'''. | |||
'''ɣ:''' Early Elithoan Celinese's /ɣ/ became unvoiced <ch> ([x] and later [χ]) in SEC - but became silent in Sairstír, often having a lengthening effect on vowels before it. Compare EEC's '''oɣt''' (from) to SEC '''och''' and SSG '''ô''' (Soft Sairstírian: '''ôth''') or SEC '''sinocht''' (snow) to SSG '''synou'''. | |||
'''No alveolar [a] raising:''' Most early middle Elithoan Celinese varieties saw [a] raised to [æ] (Modern <e> [e]) before word-final d, l, n and r. This sound change did not occur in Sairstír, and thus is not reflected in the orthography - hence '''hyrân''' [çyˈɹɑ̃ːn] (red) instead of SEC's '''hyrèn''' or '''mayar''' instead of SEC maier. Before l and sometimes r, [ɑ] is raised and rounded to [ɔ], in itself reduced to [ʊ] when unstressed. Compare SSG '''lârol''' [lɑːɹuɫ] and SEC '''lairel''' or SSG '''somor''' with SEC '''sofer'''. | |||