Scellan/Middle

Middle Skellan is the direct descendant of Tigol that was spoken in Skella. It had become Early Modern Skellan around fT 1150.

Phonology

Vowel lengthening before voiced plosives (from Tigol, Windermere and Clofabic)?

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/Alveolar	Lateral	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	fortis	mm /M/	nn /N/		ŋŋ /Ŋ/
	lenis	m /m/	n /n/		ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive	fortis	p /p/	t /t/		c /k/
	lenis	b /b/	d /d/		g /g/
Non-sibilant	unvoiced	f, ph /f/	th /θ/		ch /x/	sh, h /h/
	voiced	bh /v/	dh /ð/		gh /ɣ/
Sibilant			s /s̻/, z /s̺/	x /ɬ/
Affricate			ts /ts/	tx /tɬ/
Resonant	fortis		rr /R/	ll /L/
	lenis		r /r/	l /l/

Vowels

a á e é i í y o ó ö ő u ú ü ai ei eu iu oi ui ia ua

Syntax

Predicate-first syntax

Predicates

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

e.g. Dy eell naw ee. = I love her; Ee a (fa) dy eell ren. = It's her that I love

When fronting of a noun occurs, the remaining verb phrase becomes a noun phrase, thus a determiner must be used.

Twm øráð syrŋ bo [toxrorégin] a go þarcǿma að smøøh bo sbenopats.

NEG only new COL evolve-PASS.PART DET PST.IPFV inhabit SG world COL dinosaur

The world of the dinosaurs was not solely occupied by the newly-evolved.

In some tenses (progressive, perfect) the particle fa can be used after the a when fronting.

Dy iant a duvwŋ.

The teacher is sleeping.

Duvwŋ a (fa) dy iant.

It's the teacher who is sleeping.

Contrasting

Contrastive "partial clauses" borrow the syntax used in focused clauses.

Dy ell Sani Maið, ah twm a ry Hmorill.

Sani loves Maið, but Hmorill does not [love him].

Dy ell Sani Maið, ah twm Gelli.

Sani loves Maið, but she does not love Gelli.