Scellan

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Scellan
bris Eevo
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|bris ɛivɔ]]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Extinct	220 v.T.
Language family	Quihum Talmic Thensaric Scellan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qth

Scellan is the dominant modern Talmic language; it descends from Old Eevo. It's inspired by Icelandic, Welsh and Hmong.

Todo

• in reócht > rewtt /rɛwht/
• in már > mawr /mawl/ "tree"
• á > aw
• ae > ai
• ai > e
• aei, ái > ee
• e > y /ə/
• éi > oi > ua
• ó > oo
• u > w
• ú > u /y/
• bris = language (Netagin)
• jawþ = throat; (literary) language
• oos = even
• sos = man
• cavra = woman
• tytt = child
• car = person
• søøv = dog
• ciav = 1
• teþ = 2
• nee = 3
• doov = 4
• søl = 5
• stawv = 6
• rui = 7
• luað = 8
• berv = 9
• uar = 10
• echi = 11
• cnai = 12
• Old Eevo prefixes remain productive.

Background

See also: Proto-Talmic.

Phonology

Consonants

m n ŋ pm tn kŋ m̥ n̥ ŋ̊ (m n ŋ mm nn ŋŋ hm hn hŋ)

ʁ r~l χ r̥~ɬ (l r ll rr)

ph th kh (p t c)

hp ht hk (pp tt cc)

p t k (b d g)

f θ s x h (f þ s ch h)

v ð z j (v ð z j)

Vowels

/a ɛ i ɔ u œ y ə ai au eu iu ei øy ou iə uə ui/

a e i o w ø u y ai aw ew iw ee øø oo ia wa wi

Allowed unstressed vowels: a e i o

Diaereses (ä ë ï ö ø̈ ẅ) can be used on stressed vowels to distinguish them from diphthongs.

Intonation

Eevo has a distinctive intonation paradigm. Within said paradigm, some accents can sound like Irish accents, while some accents sound more like Valspeak.

• In declarative sentences, the stressed syllable of the focus word (if there is no focused constituent, the last word) has a lower pitch than the immediately preceding syllable. ("...mid ꜜ LOW mid...") This originates from discursive uptalk in older forms of Tíogall, which has since generalized to all declarative sentences. A few accents, such as Tumacan accents, do not use this pattern.
• In interrogative sentences, the stressed syllable of the focus word has a higher pitch than the syllable immediately before. ("... mid ꜛ HIGH mid ... ?")
• In exclamations, the pattern is "... mid ꜜ LOW-HIGH mid ... !", possibly with a gradual drop to low pitch in the end. Angry or indignant questions also use an exclamatory intonation.

Morphology

Eevo morphology tends to be simpler than most other Talmic languages; it has no split-ergativity, no grammatical gender and no mutation.

Nouns

The plural suffix is -e (< Old Eevo -ae) for nouns ending in consonants and -r for nouns ending in vowels.

• bris "language" > brise "languages"
• cavra "woman" > cavrar "women"

Pronouns

• naw = I
• fiar = you
• ha = he
• hi = she
• he = it
• cawv = we (exc.)
• gwad = we (inc.)
• swad = youse
• hawr = they

Adjectives

Adjectives do not inflect at all.

Copula

Eevo has no copula. Instead, the "predicate" or the focused constituent is fronted.

D'iant ci duvwŋ. = The teacher is sleeping.

Verbs

Present

The present uses the unmarked form of the verb followed by the subject: Ex. Mol naw ci duvwŋ means "I thank the teacher".

Progressive

The particle dy is used before the verb.

Past

Preterite: Go iant naw. = I slept.

Perfect: Yv iant naw. = I have slept.

Future

The future tense is derived from the Old Eevo future tense.

• mol "thank" > molta
• iant "sleep" > ianta

Syntax

Eevo is head-initial (with exceptions in poetry). It usually uses VSO word order; the focused constituent is fronted.

Noun phrase

ci and to are used as determiners before the noun. The "unspecified"/"irrealis" determiner to is used when asking question or in negative statements.