Slavo-Japanese
Warêren geng is a hypothetical Cymrosemblant descendant of modern Japanese, à la Efenol.
Sufeden ningêla ddiûdda ufarnârenist, mad blauddudda songent cerhidde. Ningêla saugerareda rizaed lauzinne, mad cauddauzinagerefran tâini dauaun saezinne.
- kutsu /kɯ̥t͡sɯ/ "shoe" > chu
- atsu "pressure" > *ass > âz (random change)
- 圧力 âzreg "physical pressure"
- çi̥kaɴ "pessimism" > *sgâ > ysgâ "despair"
- kʲi̥ɕit͡sɯ "temperament" > csitsu > chis "personality, nature"
- kɯɕi̥kɯmo "strangely" > cysguf
- eien "eternity" > aiê
- eien-no "eternal", eien-ni "eternally" > aien
- ai > wy "love"
- ocha > otha/oth "tea"
- siacwyth "a descendant of shakuhachi"
Internal history
Rising political instability in 21st-century Japan eventually led to societal collapse, and worse, a bloody civil war that produced many Japanese refugees to Canada and northern Europe. No longer under the influence of standardization, the Japanese they spoke underwent rapid change over generations. In particular, the language spoken by the Canadian Japanese refugees developed into Niôn geng.
Evolution from Japanese
Long vowel reflexes: ā ī ao/ō oi ē ai ae ū ui/au > /aɨ ai aw ei ai ui ei aɨ ɨ:/
Slender consonant reflexes: ky gy ch j sh ny py by my hy ry > /tʃ dʒ θ ð nʲ pl bl vl ɬ l/ <tsi j th dd si n pl bl vl lh l>
Nouns
The biggest change is the loss of topic-prominence from the merger of the topic marker wa and nominative ga.
Cases
- nom is -a or -la
- acc is unmarked
- genitive/dative is -n
- locative/instrumental is either -dde or -nne
- lative is -ngath < ni mukatte
- comitative is -t/-d/-nt
- associative plural is -dwyth/-twyth < -tachi
- ablative is -gâr
- terminative ("and"?) is -fadd
declension of heis = star: heisa, heis, heisin, heisidde, heisngath, heist, heisgâr, heisfadd
Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo = Heisa câieider warêren diâin teigin.
Verbs
Ichidan verbs
Example: tafer = he eats
- Present: tafer 'he eats'; tafen 'he does not eat'
- Progressive: tafeder 'he is eating'
- Past: tafeda 'he ate'
- Conjunctive: tafed
- Future: taferffeidd (he will eat; from taberu tsumori da 'intends to eat')
- Conditional: tafera
Godan verbs
Numbers
- aith
- ni
- sâ
- iô
- gô
- rog
- saith (< si:θ < shichi)
- wyth (< aiθ < hachi)
- tsieu
- ddeu
100: llag
1000: thi
10000: bâ