Modern Ravenish

Ravenish
tiudiskon
Pronunciation	[tiy̯.diʃ.køn]
Created by	wfosøra
Language family	Indo-European Germanic Proto-Ravenish Old Ravenish Middle Ravenish Ravenish
Early form	Middle Ravenish
Writing system	Latin

Ravenish (autoglossonym: tiudiskon; Ravenish: [tiy̯.diʃ.køn) is a Germanic language, with strong influence from Finnish. It is the result of a prolonged contact among members of both groups after the Ravenish tribe migrated to the area that is now North Ostrobothnia. These connections slowly formed the modern language, which, under influence of Finnish for centuries, led to the innovation of several new forms, such as a conditional verb form and definiteness distinctions in nouns.

Introduction

Goals

• Fun
• Learn more Germanic

Setting

• North Ostrobothnia

Inspiration

• Finnish
• Proto-Germanic
• My love for old Germanic languages

Summary of changes from Proto-Germanic

All case endings are fully dropped, Genitive and Dative are marked through affixes, nominative and accusative are marked through vowel harmony.

Etymology

The language name derives from the same source as German Deutsch, þiudiskaz. The English name is in reference to a cultural aspect of the people, their unusually large reverence for Ravens, they place an oddly high importance on Ravens even for a Germanic tribe.

Phonology

Orthography

Orthography

IPA	Letter
/ɑ, æ/	ä, a
/d/	d
/ɤ, e/	ë, e
/f/	f
/g, gʷ/	g, gv
/h, hʷ/	h, hv
/i/	i
/j/	j
/k, kʷ/	k, kv
/l/	l
/m/	m
/n/	n
/o, ø/	ö, o
/p/	p
/r/	r
/s, ʃ/	s
/t/	t
/u, y/	ü, u
/ʋ/	v, b

'ṿ' is often used in educational texts to help distinguish from a consonant cluster.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial	alveolar /Palatal	Velar /Glottal
Nasal	m	n	(ŋ)¹
Stop	p	t, d	k, g
Fricative	f	s	h
Approximant	ʋ	l, j
Trill		r

1. allophone of /n/ before /k/
2. allophone of /n/ before /kʷ/
3. allophone of /s/ before velars and at word ends

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front				Back
	unrounded		rounded		unrounded		rounded
	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː	y	yː			u	uː
mid	e	eː	ø	øː	ɤ	ɤː	o	oː
Open	æ	æː			ɑ	ɑː

Prosody

Stress

Stress, like in PG, still lies solely on the first syllable unless prefixed, where stress moves with the root word.

Morphology

Take ALL forms with '^?' with caution, the proto-Germanic form is unknown so this is me doing very, VERY basic comparisons to figure out a Possible form.

Pronouns

Colloquial personal pronouns

			Nominative	Accusative
first person	singular		muk	mük
	plural		muko	mükö
second person	singular		tuk	tük
	plural		tuko	tükö
third person	singular		ur	ür
	plural		uro	ürö
reflexive	singular		se	së
	Plural		seo	sëö

The plural forms here are neuter, masculine takes '-ai'/'-äi', feminine takes '-aar'/'-äär'

Nouns

All stems merged under a stemless form marked with vowel harmony and suffixes, this greatly reduced system makes the grammar arguably simpler than an analytical system due to how severely basic the inflectional system is.

Nominative is marked through front vowels

Accusative is marked through back vowels

Plural of both is done through '-or'/'-ör'

Genitive is marked through '-er'/'-ër' and '-oon'/'-öön' in the plural.

Dative is marked through '-ai'/'-äi' and '-am'/'-äm' in the plural.

For Genitive and Dative plural, replace the normal plural with the appropriate one.

Example texts

Beowulf Sentence 1

Language	Sentence 1 of Beowulf
English	Indeed (or 'Yes!')! We of the Spear-Danes, in days old, had our great kings who discovered the glory of what that man's courage could do.
Old English	Hƿæt! Ƿē Gār-Dena in geār‐dagum þēod‐cyninga ⁠þrym gefrūnon, hu ðā æðelingas ellen fremedon.
Ravenish
Pronunciation

Other resources

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• Phrases
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