Tigol
Tigol (Eevo: Tigol /tʰikɔ̃/, in the Eevosphere also called Old Eevo (Eevo: Eevo Dair /ˈɛɪvɔ taɪr/), is a Talmic language which arose from northern dialects of Thensarian. Its aesthetics is based on Old Irish orthography. It is the language of many manuscripts. Its extreme grammatical complexity caused it to diverge rapidly into the modern Tigolic languages: Eevo, Anvirese, Bhlaoighne and Tumaka.
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 | 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 < *φimmirā < φinā mirā = now
- Verb 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
- imm-: immediately
- (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
- Derivational affixes:
- -ach = verbal noun
- -aitt = adjectivizer
- -all = verbal noun, also abstract noun?
- A nDessachthair = lit. "that you may see her [the Second Mover]"
Orthography
Talmic script; borrow h from Tergetic or Tamil script
Phonology
Consonants
- b c d f g 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 h ṁ ph sh th /bʰ kʰ dʰ fʰ gʰ h 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: Tigol/Morphology