Eta-Talmic

Eta-Talmic/Lexicon

Eta-Talmic/Swadesh list

The Eta-Talmic languages (/ˈtɑːlmɪk/ TAHL-mik) are a subfamily of the Quame languages, originally spoken chiefly in the Bitaleta region in the planet of Tricin. Their last common ancestor is Proto-Eta-Talmic (Eevo: Ymá-Eþa-Talmib).

• PET
  • Talmic
    • Tigol
      • Eevo
      • Anbirese
      • Ciètian
    • Nurian
      • Modern Nurian
    • Wiebian
  • Qazhrian
  • Aevehāne
  • Roshterian (becomes head-initial via a different path than Tigol does)

Syntax

Although all present-day Talmic languages are rigidly head-initial, like Irish, Welsh and Southeast Asian languages, Proto-Talmic was much less so; we know this because different constructions and function words (such as prepositions and verbal morphology) fossilized in each Talmic subbranch.

Morphology

Pre-Tigol should keep the most inflections out of the Quame branches, so it was the worst language to Old Irishify

Proto-Talmic also had no inclusive vs exclusive we distinction; Tigolic and Qazhric gained the distinction under the influence of Lakovic.

History of Talmic studies

History of the term

The Talmic family was referred to as the "Kwēm languages" (Scellan: brits Cłeem) in earlier Talman works, after the Thensarian word cēm for "one" inherited in all known Talmic languages at the time. Since contact with other Quihum languages such as Naquian, the term Quame is used for the family that includes Talmic and Naquian.

Todo

• -nəm = patientive
• sθan- = gather
  • sθannəm = gathering
    • Skellan sdann = (mathematics) set
  • ~ sta- in stāmom?

• add 0 grade, lengthened grade.
  • -ssōs = another noun suffix
  • 0 grade often > ə-grade but Cl, Cr > Cli-, Cri-
  • lengthened grades: ā ī ū > ó ī ū

Change 1pl.ex from m to b

Phonology

Proto-Celtic gibberish with some added consonants and vowels

Consonants

Proto-Talmic reconstructed consonants (Panzux)

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Uvular	Labiouvular	Glottal
Nasal		*m	*n
Plosive	voiceless		*θ	*t		*k	*kʷ	*q	*qʷ
	voiced	*b	*δ	*d		*g	*gʷ
Fricative	voiceless	*ɸ		*s		[x]		[χ]		*h
	voiced							*γ	*γʷ
Resonant			*l	*r	*y		*w

The Talman dialects, which eventually became Tigol and Qazhrian, merged alveolar stops into dental stops and completely lost *φ, but Nurian and Roshterian keep the sounds distinct to this day under Idavic influence.

Vowels

a e i o u ā ē ī ō ū

Diphthongs:

ai ei oi ui au eu iu ou

Derivational morphology

Affixes

Some derivational affixes are:

• -nam (n.) = patient suffix
• -ā- = verbalizer (from *-əx̌-; just for the Proto-Celtic gibbiness)
  • What if *-əx̌- meant something else in PQuih?
  • Roshterian -ia-/-i- - fossilized suffix in many verbs
• -ākos (n.) = verbal noun (from *-əx̌- verbalizer + *-kas = older VN suffix)
  • Roshterian -iac
• -akt(V)- = adjectivizer
  • Roshterian -ait

Syntax

The emphatic particle *-is was commonly suffixed to the verb.

Gibberish

φīxs kʷēmos φaro δlanγeweti δe srībou γʷnāmesor δe φīna qrādomāxtim. γonyanθis wli nayesi, smā-deuφrimor briqennās bakū kardasweis wli φasminō. Sθām lugyeθais wli bosqōr kʷisδalābis, kas φaxθīm φar woltāyessis-do, bar Bouγʷātlom wli qaswīqis. Nai brāyos δe nenmōrus skʷedoxtānis! φirwōd φēs-naxθitor qetibāti meudyūs! Φosnīdyōr daγʷāi δe nosθenqʷētās qʷlāwītor.