Verse:Irta/Icelandic Gaelic

Irish in the Albionian timeline has absorbed significant Slavic (e.g. Albionian) influence, and Slavic elements even penetrated grammar and grammatical morphemes.

History

The Protestant Reformation culminated in the establishment of a form of Protestantism as the state religion of Albion, and Albionian became associated with Protestantism. In response, the Catholic Church promoted the Irish language and Irish nationalism in Ireland as part of its Counter-Reformation program, which involved associating Catholicism and anti-Albionian sentiment with Irish national identity. The program included purifying the Irish language by removing Slavic words and morphology and incorporating Old Irish elements. However, the purism was not entirely successful, as Slavic had already deeply influenced the colloquial language.

Today's Irish is a compromise between the artificially purified Irish and the colloquial, simplified Irish of that period. Inherited Celtic words are more common in the literary language, while Slavic and English words are more common in the colloquial language.

Todo

beidḃéid (m) = bear (from Slavic, plus mh/bh confusion)

Default verbing suffix is -uaiġ (-uaim, -uair, -uann sé, -uaimid, -uaiṫid, -uann siad, verbnoun -úḋ or colloquially -uainí), from Slavic -ovati verbs

• e.g. companuaiġ = to compose music (From Albionian componowaṫ)
• e.g. zachuaiġ = to behave
• The three main swearwords of Slavic origin:
  • pamboize 'Jesus'
  • Cad é sin, páizneásach? = 'what the hell is that?'
  • probaga (expresses exasperation)
• buaiḃí = 'who knows' (Also in standard colloquial language)

Nouns

The neuter gender and dative plural -aiḃ is preserved but there are fewer declension classes. The nominative plural of masculines and feminines is uniformly -(a)i /ɪ/ (by Slavic influence) and plural of neuters is usually -a.

The indefinite article is den (from den 'from the' + Slavic *edìn 'one'); it or lack thereof is part of the case/number/gender declension.

	fear (m.) = man		stránca (f.) = bulletin board		sceul (n.) = story, news
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
Nominative	den fear an fear	fearai ant fearai	dent stránca ant stránca	stráncai na stráncai	den sceul an sceul	sceula na sceula
Genitive	dent fhear ant ḟear	fear na ḃfearaiḃ	dena stránca na stránca	stránca na stráncaiḃ	dent sceul ant sceul	sceul na sceulaiḃ
Prepositional	dent fear ant fear	fearaiḃ na fearaiḃ	dent stránca ant stránca	stráncaiḃ na stráncaiḃ	dent sceul ant sceul	sceulaiḃ na sceulaiḃ

Nouns that end in long vowels decline as follows:

	staiḃiní (n.) = (slang) police office
	singular	plural
Nominative	den staiḃiní an staiḃiní	staiḃiní na staiḃiní
Genitive	dent staiḃiní ant staiḃiní	staiḃiní na staiḃiníḃ
Prepositional	dent staiḃiní ant staiḃiní	staiḃiníḃ na staiḃiníḃ

Adjectives only change in the dative plural (ignoring initial mutation):

	After masculine		After feminine		After neuter
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
Nominative	den fear beag	fearai beag	dent stránca ḃeag	stráncai beag	den sceul mbeag	sceula ḃeag
Genitive	dent fhear ḃeag	fear mbeag	dena stránca beag	stránca mbeag	dent sceul ḃeag	sceul mbeag
Prepositional	dent fear ḃeag	fearaiḃ beagaiḃ	dent stránca ḃeag	stráncaiḃ beagaiḃ	dent sceul ḃeag	sceulaiḃ beagaiḃ