Flei

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Ăvisvyā ('own language') is a vernacular in Méich Bhaonnáiqh. The name is inspired by *Awis-wiyā, Aoife's Proto-Celtic interpretation of her own name.

Inspirations: Proto-Celtic, Aramaic, Proto-Talmic, Greco-Latin loans in Mishnaic Hebrew

Straight up IE/Celtic?

Phonology

Consonants: same as Aramaic but no ts and added emphatic p; emphatic stops written π τ (capital Ʈ) κ.

Coronal stops/spirants are dental.

Native words are inspired by PCel and only use bgdkt stops which lenite like in Aramaic; ph > h

Vowels: i e a ā o u ă (hiriq tsere patach qamatz holam shuruk shva)

Penult stress

Morphology

Nouns

-0 nouns

-ā nouns

  • brigā -> băreghā
  • brigam -> brigę -> băreghi
  • brigāms -> băreghān (looks like fem pl indef)
  • brigās -> băreghāh (looks like 3sg.f suffix)
  • brigākos -> băreghākh (looks like 2sg.m suffix)
  • brigai -> băreghe (m pl const)