Old Ravenish
| Old Ravenish | |
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| þiudiskōn | |
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| Pronunciation | [θiu̯.ðiʃ.koːn] |
| Created by | wfosøra |
Indo-European
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Old Ravenish (autoglossonym: þiudiskōn; Ravenish: [θiu̯.ðiʃ.koːn]) is a Germanic language.
Introduction
Goals
- Fun
- Learn more Germanic
Inspiration
- Proto-Germanic
- My love for old Germanic languages
Etymology
The language name derives from the same source as German Deutsch, þiudiskaz. The English name is in reference to a cultural aspect of the people, their unusually large reverence for Ravens, they place an oddly high importance on Ravens even for a Germanic tribe.
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Consonants have remained relatively close to Proto-Germanic, except for the few stops that had fricative allophones, these shifted fully to fricatives, the opposite of all other Germanic langs, the Velar fricatives also shifted to Uvular.
| Labial | Dental | alveolar | post- alveolar |
palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | (ŋ)¹, ŋʷ² | |||||||||||
| Stop | p | t | k, kʷ | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | (ʃ)³ | (ʒ)⁴ | χ, χʷ | ʁ, ʁʷ | ||||
| Approximant | w | l̥ | l | j | ||||||||||
| Trill | r̥ | r | ʀ | |||||||||||
- allophone of /n/ before /k/
- allophone of /n/ before /kʷ/
- allophone of /s/ before velars and at word ends
- allophone of /z/ before velars and at word ends
Vowels
Vowels divert from PG more than the consonants, they've shifted closer to Finnish, also gaining harmony from Finnish.
| Front | Back | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | overlong | short | long | overlong | |||||||
| Close | i | iː | u | uː | ||||||||
| mid | e | eː | eːː | oː | oːː | |||||||
| Open | æː | æːː | ɑ | ɑː | ɑːː | |||||||
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Closing | ai̯ | ai̯ː | ou̯ | ou̯ː |
Prosody
Stress
Stress, like in PG, still lies solely on the first syllable unless prefixed, where stress moves with the root word.
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Syntax
Constituent order
The word order is mostly free, the base order is SOV, but this is subject to change when importance needs to be stressed on one word.
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Example texts
hwat! wiz gaizadanjoon yn jeeroondagamaz þeudokunungoon þrumjan gafreegun, hwo þo aþulungaaz aljano framideedun.
/ˈχʷɑt̪ ˈwiʒ ˈʁɑi̯.zɑ.ˌðɑn.joːn yn ˈjeː.roːn.ˌðɑ.ʁɑ.mɑʒ ˈθeu̯.ðo.ˌku.nun.ʁoːn ˈθrum.jɑn ˈʁɑ.freː.ʁun ˈχʷo ˈθo ˈɑ.θu.lun.ʁɑːʒ ˈɑl.jɑ.no ˈfrɑ.mi.ðeː.ðun/