Ierumidd
Introduction
At the start, there was no 'goal' in mind, I knew nothing about linguistics, but as of now, I am going for a somewhat naturalistic lang, I am mostly doing this for fun.
My inspiration comes from a wide range of languages, Sumerian for a lot of the Grammar, Welsh for grammar, spelling, sound changes, and there's certainly some Germanic influence.
List of ideas/wants:
- Incorporate more Brythonic words (Proto-Brythonic and Welsh).
- Incorporate more English (Old to New).
- Translate a song.
This language is spoken by a population of about 20k in North Wales, with a small population in South Wales.
The earliest version of this conlang started on November 8th of 2023, there have been 3 complete redos, making the current version V4, it has changed completely since its birth, going from analytical, to fusional, and now to agglutinative.
I wouldn't exactly say there's anything 'peculiar' about it, but it does have some odd features, in the formal and archaic registers of the language, the perfect is marked through an affix separate from the tense markers, this has since shifted to an aux verb in most dialects, in a few minor southern dialects the marker merged with the tense markers to create three new, separate perfect tense markers.
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | alveolar | palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m̥ | m | n̥ | n | ɲ̊ | ɲ | ŋ̊ | ŋ | ɴ̥ | ɴ | ||||
| Stop | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k | ɡ | q | ɢ | (ʔ) | |||
| Affricate | p͡ɸ | b͡β | t͡s | d͡z | c͡ç | ɟ͡ʝ | k͡x | q͡χ | ɢ͡ʁ | |||||
| Fricative | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ç | ʝ | x | χ | ʁ | |||
| Approximant | (w) | (j) | ||||||||||||
| Lateral | ɬ | l | ||||||||||||
| Trill | r̥ | r | ||||||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | iː | ɨ | ɨː | u | uː |
| Close-mid | e | eː | o | oː | ||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | w: | ː | ||||
| Open | a | aː | ||||
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
Cases
| Archaic/Formal | Modern | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -arh | -ar | ||
| Accusative | -amh | -am | ||
| Genitive | -as | -az | ||
| Dative | -imh | -im | ||
| Vocative | -joqh | |||
| Inessive | - | - | ||
| Elative | - | - | ||
| Ablative | - | - | ||
| Allative | - | - | ||
| Adessive | - | - | ||
| Abessive | - | - | ||
| Comitative | - | - | ||
| Instrumental | - | - | ||
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Particles
Derivational morphology
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
Verb phrase
Sentence phrase
Dependent clauses
Example texts
ffogwgaxhâqpiff (llafgäemarh) y ierumiddegeranqamh (I speak ierumidd)