Tigol
Tigol (Eevo: Tigol /tʰikɔ̃/, Amphirese: Tigifh), 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. Tigol is the language of many manuscripts. Its extreme grammatical complexity caused it to diverge rapidly into the modern Tigolic languages: Eevo, Amphirese, Bhlaoighne and Yekhanese.
Primitive Eevo
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | t /t/ | k /k/ | ||||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s /s/ | h /h/ | ||||
| voiced | [z] | ||||||
| Trill | r /r/ | ||||||
| Approximant | w /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 ai au ei eu iu oi ui.
Todo
- tobynis = to be like
- change ħ to ŋ
- immer < *φimmirae < φinae mirae = 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 = name of a museum (lit. "that you may see inside 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 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 mm nn ŋŋ pp rr ss tt /kː lː mː 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