Holenagic

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Holenagic
Hgoailnaighiael
kjeirsy hgoailnaighiael
Pronunciation[[Help:IPA|[[ˈɣɔʎnᵞadʑʑɛʎ]
[ˈc͡çiːrʲʃy ˈɣɔʎnᵞadʑʑɛʎ]]]]
Created byLili21
DateSep 2017
SettingCalémere
EthnicityHolenagics
Native speakers16,000,000 (2312)

Holenagic — natively called Hgoailnaighiael [ˈɣɔʎnᵞadʑʑɛʎ] or kjeirsy hgoailnaighiael [ˈc͡çiːrʲʃy ˈɣɔʎnᵞadʑʑɛʎ]] — is a language of the planet of Calémere, spoken natively by about 13 million people on Holenagika (Hol.: Hgoailnaigkae [ˈɣɔʎnᵞadʑtɕɛː] (commonly [-nᵞattɕɛː]) Ísc.: Holenágieca; Cer.: Holenájica; Chl.: Hålinaika), Calémere's largest island, located in the northwestern corner of Evandor (mostly covered by mountains, taiga, and tundra in the north).

It is an Evandorian language and an isolate in the family, as it developed early enough to have its own peculiarities, not shared with any other Evandorian language, both in the sounds and in the grammar - for example, it is the only Evandorian language to have developed person marking on verbs - cf. ehd [eː] "to reach" (< Proto-Evandorian *etmeȟ "to close"; cf. Íscégon and Cerian éma, Besagren ema (all "to finish")) and ehdvṅ [ˈeɪ̯wəŋ] "he/she/it reaches" (cf. Ísc. and Cer. éma which needs a pronoun). Also notable are the various sound changes, which led Holenagic to develop many clusters; anyway, it is the only Evandorian language that has kept original /q/ and (often) /ŋ/ from Proto-Evandorian. These two consonants, extremely rare in the modern languages of the family, give Holenagic its unique sound, also because of their use in common words - cf. fuq "he", fqa "she".
It also keeps a highly etymological orthography, with many silent letters, as in hdieigv "road" /iːvʎ/ [iːvʲ] (Western Holenagic dialects: /iː/).

Introduction

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

→ PoA
↓ Manner
Labial Labiodental Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular
Nasals m n̥ nᵞ nʲ ŋ̊ ŋ
Plosives p b t d k ɡ q
Affricates ts dz tɕ dʑ cç
Fricatives f v s z ʃ ʒ ç x ɣ
Laterals l̥ lᵞ ʎ
Trill r̥ r rʲ
Approximants j w

All consonants except for /n̥ ŋ̊ cç q ç l̥ r̥ j w/ are part of morphophonemic soft-hard alternation pairs. They are the following:

Hard Soft
/m p b f v/ [mlʲ plʲ blʲ flʲ vlʲ]
/mʎ pʎ bʎ fʎ vʎ/
/t d lᵞ r/ /ts dz ʎ rʲ/
/s z/ /ʃ ʒ/
/ŋ k ɡ x ɣ/ /ŋj tɕ dʑ ç ç/

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Mutations

Nouns

Verbs

Present tense

The present tense endings are agglutinative, but all of them except 2SG and 3SG are added to the extended stem instead of the infinitive one (with the exception of 2PL if the extended stem ends in -ṅ).

1SG 2SG 3SG 1PL 2PL 3PL
Written -* -uis -vṅ -*viehh -*hr -*ves
Common pronunciation -uʃ -wəŋ -vlʲəx -r̥ -vlʲəʃ

Examples:

  • hjeilshn /ˈçiːʎəsʲn̥/ "to read", no ext. stem : hjeilshn, hjeilshnuis [ˈçiːʎəsʲn̥uʃ], hjeilshnvṅ [ˈçiːʎəsʲn̥əu̯ŋ], hjeilshnviehh [ˈçiːʎəsʲn̥ix], hjeilshnhr [ˈçiːʎəsʲn̥ər̥], hjeilsnves [ˈçiːʎəsʲn̥ɪu̯ʃ]
  • ehd /ˈeː/ "to go out", ext. stem ehdṅ- : ehdṅ [ˈeɪ̯əŋ], ehduis [ˈeɣuʃ], ehdvṅ [ˈe(ɪ̯)wːəŋ], ehdṅviehh [ˈeɪ̯ŋvlʲəx], ehdhr [eɪ̯r̥] ehdṅves [eɪ̯ŋvlʲəʃ]
  • orehg /oˈrʲeɪ̯/ "to carry", ext. stem orehgl-: orehgl [oˈrʲeːʎ], orehguis [oˈrʲeɣuʃ], orehglvṅ [oˈrʲeːlᵞuŋ] orehglviehh [oˈrʲeːlᵞvlʲəx], orehghr [oˈrʲeːr̥], orehglves [oˈrʲeːlᵞvlʲəʃ]

Reflexive verbs use the following endings (all of them after the extended stem):

1SG 2SG 3SG 1PL 2PL 3PL
Written -ohbd -yhbd -vuds -eshb -ykhbo -vehhds
Common pronunciation -oʊ̯d -yːd -vudz -eʃoʊ̯ -ytɕwo -weːdz
  • bods orehg /bodz oˈrʲeɪ̯/ "to go", ext. stem orehgl- : orehglohbd [oˈrʲeɪ̯lᵞoʊ̯d], orehglyhbd [oˈrʲeɪ̯ʎyːd], orehglvyds [oˈrʲeɪ̯lᵞvudz], orehgleshb [oˈrʲeɪ̯ʎeʃoʊ̯], orehglykhbo [oˈrʲeɪ̯ʎytɕwo], orehglvehhds [oˈrʲeɪ̯lᵞweːdz]

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources

Notes