Slavo-Japanese

Niông is a hypothetical Cymrosemblant descendant of modern Japanese, à la Efenol.

Sufeden ningêla ddiûdda ufarnârenist, mad blauddudda songent cêridde. Ningêla saugerareda rizaed lauzinne, mad cauddauzinagerefran tâini dauaun saezinne.

• kutsu /kɯ̥t͡sɯ/ "shoe" > chu
• atsu "pressure" > *ass > âz (random change)
  • 圧力 âzreg "physical pressure"
• çi̥kaɴ "pessimism" > *sgâ > ysgâ "despair"
• kʲi̥ɕit͡sɯ "temperament" > csitsu > chis "personality, nature"
• kɯɕi̥kɯmo "strangely" > cysguf
• eien "eternity" > aiê
  • eien-no "eternal", eien-ni "eternally" > aien
• ai > wy "love"
• ocha > otha/oth "tea"
• siacwyth "shakuhachi"

Internal history

Rising political instability in 21st-century Japan eventually led to societal collapse, and worse, a bloody civil war that produced many Japanese refugees to Canada and northern Europe. No longer under the influence of standardization, the Japanese they spoke underwent rapid change over generations. In particular, the language spoken by the Canadian Japanese refugees developed into Niông.

Evolution from Japanese

Long vowel reflexes: ā ī ao/ō oi ē ai ae ū ui/au > /aɨ ai aw ei ai ui ei aɨ ɨ:/

Slender consonant reflexes: ky gy ch j sh ny py by my hy ry > /tʃ dʒ θ ð nʲ pl bl vl ɬ l/ <tsi j th dd si n pl bl vl lh l>

Nouns

Cases

• nom is -a or -la
• acc is -o or -lo
• genitive/dative is -n
• locative/instrumental is either -dde or -nne
• lative is -ngath < ni mukatte
• comitative is -d/-nt
• associative plural is -dwyth/-twyth < -tachi

Numbers

1. aith
2. ni
3. sâ
4. iô
5. gô
6. rog
7. saith (< si:θ < shichi)
8. wyth (< aiθ < hachi)
9. tsieu
10. ddeu

100: llag

1000: thi

10000: bâ