Flei

Flei
Created by	Inthar
Setting	Verse:Méich Bhaonnáiqh
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Flei

Šemroghe-thabbåthå (< PCel swe-mrogi-tangwāts 'own region's language') is a vernacular in Méich Bhaonnáiqh belonging to the Celtic family. It's inspired by Aramaic and also has Greek and Latin loans that look like Greco-Latin loans in Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic. It's the native language of the player character Ăvišyå (from *Awiswiyā, Aoife's Proto-Celtic interpretation of her own name). It's a fairly typical IE language.

πăraqliτ = advocate, attorney, etc.

askolå, asτråτeghyå, ukhlusin

borrow -ium/-ion as -in: opsarion > uπsărin 'culinary fish', -in is also a diminutive which is used a lot

sP sT sq -> asP asT asq (skhole > askola)

lp

Phonology

Consonants: same as Aramaic but no pharyngeals and no ts and added emphatic p; emphatic stops written π τ (capital Ʈ) q.

Coronal stops/spirants are dental.

Native words only use bgdkpt stops which lenite like in Aramaic; φ > h

Vowels: i e a å o u ă /i e æ A o u ä/

Ultimate or penultimate stress

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns have 2 genders (m, f), 2 numbers (sg, pl) and 4 cases (nom, gen, prep/dat, acc). The dative is used for indirect objects, and sometimes for prepositional objects. When a preposition can use both the dative and the accusative, the dative denotes being at the location and the accusative denotes motion towards the location.

-0/-i nouns (-(y)o(s/m))

maph 'boy' (< *makkʷos)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	maph	mappi
Genitive	mappi	mappåkh (an adjective)
Dative	mappu	mappobh
Accusative	maph	mappun

-å nouns (-(y)ā)

breghå 'power, might' (< *brigā)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	breghå	breghåh
Genitive	breghåh	breghåkh
Dative	breghe	breghåbh
Accusative	breghi	breghån

-i stem nouns

inanimate:

mor 'sea' (< *mori)

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mor	moryå
Genitive	moreh	morekh
Dative	mori	morebh
Accusative	mor	moryå

Adjectives

o/ā, yo/yā, i/ī, u/wyā

similar to nouns, but gen pl uses the original PCel ending

Verbs

similar to Irish tenses with no compound tenses

• present: mārām, mārāsi, mārāti, mārāmu, mārāte, mārānti, mārātor -> måri, måråh, mårå, mårån, måråth, mårant/måratt, måråthor -> måri mi, måråh tu, måre/måri, mårån nih, måråth ših, måratt eh, mårăthor
• preterite
• future
• imperfect
• conditional
• imperative

Syntax

Similar to Contiental Celtic, with some JBA features