Opach

Opach
Created by	Melinoë, Vrianne
Native to	Along the Ob and Irtysh.
Language family	Indo-European ? Opach
Early forms	Pre-Germanic ? Proto-Opach Old Opach Middle Opach Opach
Dialects	Southern Northern
Writing system	Latin

Opach (/ˈoʊ̯.pɑt͡ʃ/ or /oʊ̯.pɑk/ (rare); endonym: ) is a Northern ? language spoken along the Ob and Irtysh rivers, for which it is named. Opach, being a part of ?, is descended from Pre-Germanic, and as such lacks the major Germanic sound changes such as Grimm's and Verner's laws, this leads to a noticeable "un-Germanic-ness" throughout the family.

History

Phonology

Vowels

Opach has backness harmony, splitting vowels into two sets, front and back.

	front		back
	unround	round	unround	round
high	i	y ⟨ü⟩	ɯ ⟨ı⟩	u
mid-high	e	ø ⟨ö⟩	ɤ ⟨ë⟩	o
mid-low	ɛ ⟨ə⟩	œ ⟨ɵ̈⟩	ʌ ⟨ə̈⟩	ɔ ⟨ɵ⟩
low	æ ⟨ä⟩		ɑ ⟨a⟩

Every vowel can be both short and long, with long vowels being written as doubled.

Prosody

Opach retains the phonemic stress from Proto-Indo-European, this is marked with an acute.

Morphology

Opach is agglutinative (with some exception), inflecting nominals and verbs heavily.

Nouns

Masculines

a-stem

i-stem

u-stem

Feminines

i-stem

u-stem

ā-stem