Azalic
Acholic is an imagined Indo-European branch, intended as part of an alternate possible diachronics of the English language.
The name Acholic is an invented Greek cognate of Əngoil, the legendary mother of the Acholic people (cognate of Ahalyā in Hindu mythology).
Family tree
- Acholic
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 > e:
- e, i > e, i
- 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
Proto-Acholic had a highly eroded case system. The notation (i) denotes "i-umlaut" or a j-offglide on the nucleus.
- dir. -0, (i)
- voc. (i), (i)
- obl. (i), -su
- gen. -s, (i)-s
- lat. -ther, (no pl)
Adjectives
Adjectives were uninflected, because they were split off from adjective-noun compounds.
Verbs
Verb tenses were relatively complex, but the personal affixes were restructured.
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