Slavo-Japanese

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Niông is a hypothetical Cymrosemblant descendant of modern Japanese, à la Efenol.

Suveden ningêla dhidhûdha uvarnârenist, mad blaudhaudha songent cêridhe. Ningêla saugerareda rizaed lauzinne, mad caudhauzinagerevaran tâini dauaun saezinne.

Long vowel reflexes: ā ī ō oi ē ai ū ui > /aɨ ei aw ei ai ui aɨ ɨ:/

Slender consonant reflexes: ky gy ch j sh ny py by my hy ry > /tʃ dʒ θ ð nʲ pl bl vl ɬ l/ <tsi j th dd si n pl bl vl lh l>

Numbers: 1. eith 2. ni 3. sañ 4. ioñ 5. go 6. rog 7. saith (< si:θ < shichi) 8. wyth (< aiθ < hachi) 9. tsieu 10. ddeu

  • kutsu /kɯ̥t͡sɯ/ "shoe" > cysu (voicing devoiced vowels to y?) or chu?
  • atsu "pressure" > *ass > âz (random change)
    • 圧力 âzreg "physical pressure"
  • çi̥kaɴ "pessimism" > *sgâ > ysgâ "despair"
  • kʲi̥ɕit͡sɯ "temperament" > csitsu > chisu
  • kɯɕi̥kɯmo "strangely" > cysguf
  • eien "eternity" > aiê
    • eien-no "eternal", eien-ni "eternally" > aien

Internal history

Rising political instability in 21st-century Japan eventually led to societal collapse, and worse, a civil war that produced many Japanese refugees to Canada and northern Europe. No longer under influence of standardization, the Japanese they spoke underwent rapid changes over generations. Niông is a descendant of the Japanese spoken by the Canadian Japanese refugees.

Nouns

Cases

  • nom is -a or -la
  • acc is -o or -lo
  • genitive/dative is -n
  • locative/instrumental is either -dde or -nne
  • lative is -ngath < ni mukatte
  • comitative is -d/-nt
  • associative plural is -dwyth/-twyth < -tachi