Tigol
Old Eevo (Eevo: Eevo Dair) is a Talmic language which arose from northern dialects of Thensarian. Its descendants are the modern Tigolic languages: Eevo, Anvirese, etc. Its aesthetics is based on Old Irish.
Primitive Eevo
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | t /t/ | c /k/ | ||||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | φ /φ/ | s /s/ | h /h/ | |||
| voiced | [z] | ||||||
| Trill | r /r/ | ||||||
| Approximant | v /ʋ/ | l /l/ | j /j/ | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i /i/ | ī /iː/ | u /u/ | ū /uː/ | ||
| Mid | e /ɛ/ | o /ɔ/ | ||||
| Open | a /a/ | ā /aː/ | ||||
The diphthongs are ae ao ei eo iu oe ui.
Todo
- tobynis = to be like
- Keep ħ from Thensarian? or change ħ to ŋ
- immer < *inmer < φinā birā = now
- Prefixes:
- ar-: on, at
- (deut.) as-: telic
- (prot.) de-, (deut.) do-: in, at
- é-: with, co-
- fin-/sin- = well, thoroughly
- for-: causative, through
- (prot.) ful-, (deut.) fol-: around, back
- (prot.) gel-, (deut.) gol-: up, out
- ro-: down
- sol-: a causative
- (prot.) su-, (deut.) so-: towards
- (prot.) sur-, (deut.) sor-: back
- (prot.) u(cc)-, (deut.) oc-: from
Phonology
Consonants
- b c d f g h l m n ŋ p r s t /b k d f g h l m n ŋ p r s t/
- "Lenition": ḃ ch ḋ fh ġ ṁ ph sh th /bʰ kʰ dʰ fʰ gʰ mʰ pʰ sʰ tʰ/
- "Eclipsis": ᵐb ᵑc ⁿd ᵑg ᵐf ᵐp ⁿs ⁿt /ᵐb ᵑk ⁿd ᵑg ᵐf ᵐp ⁿs ⁿt/
- Geminates: cc ll nn ŋŋ pp rr ss tt /kː lː nː ŋː pː rː sː tː/
Vowels
- a e i o u /a e i o u/
- á é í ó ú /aː eː iː oː uː/
- ai ei io oi ui
- ae ao ái éi eó éu ia ío íu iú ói oí ua úi uí
All five short vowels a e i o u could occur in a word-final unstressed syllable.
Morphology
- Main article: Old Eevo/Morphology