Flei

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 bgdkpt 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

-ā nouns (-(y)ā)

• 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)

Verbs

• mārām, mārāsi, mārāti, mārāmu, mārāte, mārānti -> māri, mārāh, mārā, mārān, mārāth, mārant/māratt