Idavic languages
Idavic | |
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Created by | – |
Geographic distribution | Etalocin, eastern Txapoalli, Bjeheond |
Linguistic classification | One of Tricin's primary language families |
Proto-language | Proto-Idavic (PId) |
Idavic or Idavo-Etalocian is a Trician language family which includes Dodellic. The urheimat is central-western Etalocin.
Inspiration: Afro-Asiatic, IE
How does this become Netagin tricons?
Family tree
- Idavic
- Netagic (the only tricons branch)
- Netagin (Optimized for piyyutim)
- Nabŋaic
- Sésjallese (Hiberno-Arabic)
- Ouřefr (Czech + Dutch)
- Pategic
- Netagic (the only tricons branch)
Phonology
Consonants
Proto-Idavic had about 27 consonants and had a distinction between front and back coronals and front and back velars. It is thought to have had no labials except /m/; labials were gained in later languages but in different ways.
Labial | Front coronal | Back coronal | Front velar | Back velar | Labiovelar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m /m/ | n /n̪~n̠/ | ŋ /ɲ~ŋ/ | |||||
Plosive | voiceless | t /t̪/ | ť /t̠/ | ḱ /k̟/ | k /k̠/ | kʷ /kʷ/ | q /ʔ/ | |
voiced | b /b/ | d /d̪/ | ď /d̠/ | ǵ /g̟/ | g /g̠/ | |||
Fricative | s /s̟/ | š /s̠/ | x́ /x̟/ | x /x̠/ | xʷ /xʷ/ | h /h/ | ||
Affricate | c /t̪s̟/ | č /t̠s̠/ | ||||||
Resonant | l /l̪/ | ľ /ɺ/ | y /j/ | r /ʀ/ | w /w/ |
In PId triliteral roots, front coronal stops and back coronal stops could not occur next to each other, and neither could front velars, back velars and labiovelars stops.
Vowels
Proto-Idavic had a vowel system similar to that of Proto-Balto-Slavic.
Front | Back | |||
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short | long | short | long | |
Close | i /ɪ/ | ī /i:/ | u /ʊ/ | ū /u:/ |
Open | e /æ/ | ē /æ:/ | a /ɑ/ | ā /ɑ:/ |
Diphthongs: ay aw ey ew~jaw
Suprasegmentals
- Pitch accent: modal (á), creaky (ã)
- Creaky voice is the source of glottal reinforcement in Shalaian and gemination in Netagin.
Morphology
Triconsonantal but only Netagin preserves this
Syntax
Lifted from German: V2, SAuxOV, verb final in subordinate clauses
Todo: separable prefixes