Azalic
Time Traveler Anglic is an imagined Indo-European branch, intended as part of an alternate possible diachronics of the English language.
Family tree
- Proto-Time Traveler Anglic
Phonology
Inspirations: Vietnamese, Armenian
m n bʰ dʰ gʰ gʷʰ p t k kʷ pʰ tʰ kʰ kʷʰ s x z l r j w
Vowels: e i o u ə ā ē ī ō ū ai au əi əɨ əu iəu iə uə
Reflexes:
- oi > uə
- iH > i:
- ei > əi, sometimes iə
- ē > a:
- e, i > e, i, e:
- uH > u:
- u > u (needs umlaut)
- ou > əɨ
- eu > əɨ (iəu in some words)
- o > o (needs umlaut)
- oH, eh2, eh3 > əu
h1oinos, dwoh1, treyes, kwetwores, penkwe, sweks, septm, oktōw, h₁néwn̥, deḱm -> xuən, təu, tʰriə~tʰre:, pʰoþur, phi:xw, seks, sefn, oxʰtəu, nəɨn, texn~te:n
Grammar
Nouns
Cases with a lot of syncretism
- dir. -0, -(i)
- voc. -(i), -(i)
- obl. -(i)/-V/-s, -su/-b
- gen. -s, -N/V
- lat. -ther, (no pl)
Adjectives
Adjectives were uninflected, because they were split off from adjective-noun compounds.
Verbs
the pronouns are the usual English ones plus *swe
when the subject is nominal singular, "he", "she" or "it", the "swe" is required for verbal agreement
the 2sg and 3sg distal pronouns are number neutral so they don't need *swe
- Imperfective (the source of the English nonpast): e-grade or otherwise the unmarked form of the verb
- Perfective (the source of the English past): o-grade or -d from -tós
- Aorist: sigmatic aorist
- Future: sigmatic future
- Active participle: -ent
- Passive participle: zero-grade with -n from -nós, or -d from -tós