Þiudiskon

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Ravenish
þiudiskon
Ravenish flag.png
Pronunciation[θiu̯.ðiʃ.køn]
Created bywfosøra
Indo-European
  • Germanic
    • Ravenish
      • Ravenish
Dialects
  • Standard
  • Colloquial
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Ravenish (autoglossonym: þiudiskon; Ravenish: [θiu̯.ðiʃ.køn]) is a Germanic language, with strong influence from Finnish. It is the result of a prolonged contact among members of both groups after the Ravenish tribe migrated to the area that is now North Ostrobothnia. These connections slowly formed the modern language, which, under influence of Finnish for centuries, led to the innovation of several new forms, such as a conditional verb form and definiteness distinctions in nouns.

While its vocabulary derives for the most part from Proto-Germanic, Finnish influence is most notable in its phonology and its grammar.

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.

Goals

  • Fun
  • Learn more Germanic

Setting

Inspiration

  • Finnish
  • Proto-Germanic
  • My love for old Germanic languages

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.

Consonant phonemes
Labial Dental alveolar post-
alveolar
palatal Velar Uvular
Nasal m n (ŋ)¹, ŋʷ²
Stop p , t̪ʷ k, kʷ
Fricative f v θ ð s, sʷ z (ʃ (ʒ)⁴ χ, χʷ ʁ, ʁʷ
Approximant w l j
Trill r ʀ
  1. allophone of /n/ before /k/
  2. allophone of /n/ before /kʷ/
  3. allophone of /s/ before velars and at word ends
  4. 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.

Vowel phonemes
Front Back
unrounded rounded
short long overlong short long short long overlong
Close i y u
mid e eːː ø øː o
Open æ æː æːː ɑ ɑː ɑːː
Diphthongs
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/

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