Evonish: Difference between revisions

'''Evonish''' is a [[w:Germanic languages|Germanic language]] of the Evonen language branch. It is based on [[w:General American pronunciation|General American phonology]] and uses grammar that descends directly, but far from Common Germanic. The wordstock has many influences of [[w:Celtic languages|Celtic languages]] and [[a priori]] conlangs. Despite this, the alphabet is a modified Latin one. The elder form is the runic Middle Evonish, which was less organized but had featured greater [[w:morphology|morphology]]. The two languages split on 25 May 2012 and will differentiate more over time. The objective of Evonish is to preserve old features of Germanic, preserve Celtic vocabulary, as well as eliminate any need for interpretation by context.

|order = SVO

|Phonology= 90

|NounCases= 100

|NounDef=100

|NounNumbers= 100

|NounGender= 100

|VerbPerson= 100

|VerbNumber= 100

|VerbAspect= 100

|VerbTense= 100

|VerbMood= 50

|VerbVoice= 100

|Supine= 100

|Gerund= 100

|Modality= 100

|Words=6}}

 

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| style="text-align: center;"|i

| style="text-align: center;"|u

| style="text-align: center;"|ɪ

| style="text-align: center;"|ʊ

| style="text-align: center;"|e

| style="text-align: center;"|o

| style="text-align: center;"|ə

| style="text-align: center;"|ɛ

| style="text-align: center;"|ʌ ɔ

| style="text-align: center;"|æ

| style="text-align: center;"|ɑ

This sound change creates related pairs of words with c, k, and x.

===Allophones & Alphabet===

See [[IPA for Evonish]] for the pronunciations of the letters. It is a 28 letter alphabet as follows: a, p, b, c, j, t, d, þ, ð, e, f, v, k, g, h, i, y, l, m, n, o, r, s, z, u, ƕ, w, x. <br>

N is pronounced /ŋ/ before k or g. "Hr" which appears in the initial position of some words is pronounced /ɾ/, although it is oft mistakenly pronounced /hɹ/.

===Diacritics & Digraphs===

! scope="col"|# / Gender

Nouns in Evonish are declined to indicate their grammatical role in the sentence. Their declension depends upon case, gender, and number. Gender is a special factor in Evonish; a word does not determine a gender, rather a selected gender determines a different word. For example, a stone in common gender may be an igneous rock while a stone in neuter may be a sedimentary rock. The plural genitive ending is used in compound words much like kennings.