Fargulyn languages

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Fargulyn
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Geographic
distribution
Northeastern Márusúturon
Linguistic classificationOne of Calémere's primary language families
Proto-languageProto-Fargulyn
Subdivisions
  • Karaskyr
  • Balmud
  • Zilmab
  • Polinic
  • Narolic

The Fargulyn languages (Sky.: Fargulyn gjalyn; Chl.: pargulenyumi dhāḍai; Cer. sérošu Fárogurino) are a Calémerian language family spoken mostly on the continent of Márusúturon.

The Fargulyn-speaking area includes most of the northeastern part of the continent, whose dominant language is by far the most spoken of the Fargulyn family, Skyrdagor. In Greater Skyrdagor, aside from Skyrdagor itself, various other Fargulyn languages (of branches not too distant from Skyrdagor) are spoken; the rest of the family is mainly spoken in the northeastern taiga - Aksalbor, Arkjatar, and parts of Askand in Greater Skyrdagor; the Chlouvānem diocese of Kēhamijāṇa; the Union of New Égélonía; and the inhabited parts of the Lalla Kēhamyuñca. There are, furthermore, Fargulyn minorities across the northern Inquisition and a historical presence in its northeast, as well as in Qualdomailor (where the Fargulyn Urheimat is thought to have been) and in Brono. Finally, the geographical outlier is Rǣrumi, spoken by the formerly semi-nomadic Rǣrai people, historically moving through the Nīmbaṇḍhāra-Lāmberah plain, nowadays settled in the Chlouvānem diocese of Rǣrajāṇai.

There are five recognized sub-families of Fargulyn languages:

  • the Karaskyr branch, including the Skyrdagorian languages as well as a few scattered languages in Qualdomailor (Keleb), Brono (Yumsur and moribund Kylhez), and the northern Inquisition (Kareyumi in southern Dahelijaiṭa, Barājyumi and Šoltinumi in Saṃhayolah, and Lugrumi in Dūlāyirjaiṭa);
  • the Balmud branch, spoken mostly in eastern Greater Skyrdagor (notably in Cselsengeg, Byrzsysztav, and Ajversziv), also including Rǣrumi;
  • the Zilmab branch, nowadays only surviving in central-southwestern Kēhamijāṇa and in the Komzolyn/Kamurjāram mountains on the Chlouvānem-New Égélonian border, but formerly spoken along the Embranas river (NE Inquisition) and in present-day southern New Égélonía;
  • the Polinic branch, spoken on the coast and in the coastal ranges of New Égélonía; the pre-Chlouvānem language of Aratāram island was also likely Polinic, but the only surviving fragments can't show more than a broader Fargulyn origin;
  • the Narolic branch, scattered across the northern taiga in Arkjatar, Aksalbor, Askand, Kēhamijāṇa, New Égélonía, and the Lalla Kēhamyuñca. The Narolic-speaking Oldob people of the Oldobian Gulf at the northwestern end of the Lalla Kēhamyuñca are considered the northernmost native human people of Calémere.

Proto-Fargulyn speakers had various contacts with both Proto-Samaidulic and Proto-Lahob speakers, so that there are various common words – as common as "son" or "to sleep" – that have cognates in Samaidulic or Lahob languages.

Vocabulary

Proto-Fargulyn Karaskyr Balmud
Skyrdagor Kolypen
(northern Blm.)
Kigot
(northern Blm.)
Rǣrumi
*laq'ərnɒz "man" leharn [ɮɛxɒ˞n] tauro dawran ræ:æron
*kikelwe "woman" hjezla [(c)çe͡ɛːɮa] khširē kišrai kixroë
*zlapa "tree" zlab [d͡ɮab] suvau suwaw šo:ap
*mēq'i "water" mikje [mic͡çe] mai mai mær
*q'əwəjlak "hand, five" hivlah [xʊɪ̯ɮax]
"five"
vairo wair gojrog
*wepn "to sleep" vam [vam] vau wew web
*kamɨjuq "son" humyg [xumoː] khešu kež komžu
*lekene "first, front-" lehjyn [ɮɛ͡eçɯn] tēni deini rešn
*p'əslə-sɒ́r "baked thing" > "bread" skyvls [ɧʉ͡uɬ] fæsæl fesero fesiw