Scellan/Middle

Middle Skellan is the direct descendant of Tigol that was spoken in Skella. It had become Early Modern Skellan around fT 1150.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/Alveolar	Lateral	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	fortis	mm /M/	nn /N/		ŋŋ /Ŋ/
	lenis	m /m/	n /n/		ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive	fortis	p /p/	t /t/		c /k/
	lenis	b /b/	d /d/		g /g/
Non-sibilant	unvoiced	f, ph /f/	th /θ/		ch /x/	sh, h /h/
	voiced	bh /v/	dh /ð/		gh /ɣ/
Sibilant			s /s̻/, z /s̺/	x /ɬ/
Affricate			ts /ts/	tx /tɬ/
Resonant	fortis		rr /R/	ll /L/
	lenis		r /r/	l /l/

Vowels

a á e é i í y o ó ö ő u ú ü ai ei eu iu oi ui ia ua

Syntax

Predicate-first syntax

Predicates

Eevo has no copula. Instead, the "predicate" or the focused constituent is fronted:

e.g. Dy eell naw ee. = I love her; Ee a (fa) dy eell ren. = It's her that I love

When fronting of a noun occurs, the remaining verb phrase becomes a noun phrase, thus a determiner must be used.

Twm øráð syrŋ bo [toxrorégin] a go þarcǿma að smøøh bo sbenopats.

NEG only new COL evolve-PASS.PART DET PST.IPFV inhabit SG world COL dinosaur

The world of the dinosaurs was not solely occupied by the newly-evolved.

In some tenses (progressive, perfect) the particle fa can be used after the a when fronting.

Dy iant a duvwŋ.

The teacher is sleeping.

Duvwŋ a (fa) dy iant.

It's the teacher who is sleeping.

Contrasting

Contrastive "partial clauses" borrow the syntax used in focused clauses.

Dy ell Sani Maið, ah twm a ry Hmorill.

Sani loves Maið, but Hmorill does not [love him].

Dy ell Sani Maið, ah twm Gelli.

Sani loves Maið, but she does not love Gelli.