Fingail

Fingail
Fingail
Pronunciation	[ˈfiŋgaˌil]
Created by	Nicolas Campi
Date	2010
Setting	Alt-history Europe, Southern Finland
Native to	Fingall
Language family	Uralic Finno-Ugric Finnic Northern Finnic Fingail
Early forms	Proto-Finnic Finnish
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Official language in	Finland
Language codes
ISO 639-3	fnh

Fingail (/ˈfɪŋɡaɪl/; Fingail: fingail [ˈfiŋgaˌil]) is an a posteriori Finnic altlang spoken in certain rural areas of what corresponds to our Wales and England, especially Cornwall.

Phonology

Consonants

Phonemes that appear in brackets are only allophonic variants of the same phoneme.

	Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Lateral		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal		m				n						(ŋ)
Stop	p	b			t	d					k	ɡ
Fricative	f	v	θ	⟨th⟩	s	(z)	ɬ	⟨lh⟩					χ	⟨ch⟩	h
Trill					r̥ ⟨rh⟩	r
Approximant								l		j ⟨i⟩		w

Vowels

Vowels retain a long vs short distinction, and are marked either by the use of an acute ⟨´⟩ or by the use of a circumflex ⟨^⟩. This last one is mostly used to denote certain contexts where the long vowels are a result of a historical contraction of more than one vowel.

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː			u	uː
Mid	e	eː			o	oː
Open			a	aː

Syntax

Example texts

sín ragathan, mín ragathad?

I love you, do you love me?

Hîw paev! Hello!

Peithath aeg long time no see

Miden voeth How are you?

Hîw geid, ened sín? Fine, and you?

Hîw gomened! Good morning!

Hîw eled Good evening!