Scellan
Scellan-English lexicon
Swadesh list
| Scellan | |
|---|---|
| bris Eivo | |
| Pronunciation | [[Help:IPA|bris ɛivɔ]] |
| Created by | IlL |
| Setting | Verse:Tricin |
| Extinct | 220 v.T. |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qth |
Scellan is the dominant modern Talmic language; it descends from Old Eivo. It's inspired by Icelandic, Welsh and Hmong.
Todo
- in reócht > rewtt /rɛwht/
- in már > mawr /mawl/ "tree"
- á > aw
- ae > ai
- ai > e
- aei, ái > ei
- éi > oi > ua
- ó > ow
- u > w
- ú > u /y/
- jawþ = fancier word for language
- Old Eivo prefixes remain productive.
Background
- See also: Proto-Talmic.
Phonology
Consonants
m n ŋ pm tn kŋ (m n ŋ mm nn ŋŋ hm hn hŋ)
ʟ r~l χ r̥~ɬ (l r ll rr)
ph th kh (p t c)
hp ht hk (pp tt cc)
f θ s x h (f þ s ch h)
p t k (b d g)
v ð z j (v ð z j)
Vowels
/a ɛ i ɔ u œ y ə ai ei øy au eu iu ou iə yə uə/
a e i o w ø u y ai ei øu aw ew iw ow ia ua wa
Orthography
Morphology
- Main article: Thensarian/Morphology
Morphology
Eivo has no grammatical gender and no mutation.
Pronouns
- naw = I
- fiar = you
- hav = he
- hi = she
- ce = it
- cawv = we (exc.)
- guad = we (inc.)
- suad = youse
- hawr = they
Adjectives
Adjectives do nor inflect at all.
Copula
Eivo has no copula. Instead, the "predicate" or the focused constituent is fronted.
D'iant ci duvwŋ. = The teacher is sleeping.
Verbs
The Eivo verbal system is very different from Tíogall, and much closer to Bhadhagha.
Eivo analogized the analytic forms of verbs to all persons, and fused the personal pronoun with the verb.
Eivo is not split-ergative, unlike Tíogall.
Perfect tenses use the construction tänn followed by the verbal noun.
Present
molaigh ná -> molana "I thank"
molaigh fiar -> moler "thou thankest"
molaigh -> molu (he), moli (she), molak (it), molaar (they)
molaigh ámh -> molau "we (exc.) thank"
molaigh ná ag fiar -> molaner "we (inc.) thank"
molaigh séid -> molad "ye thank"
Impersonal: molaav "one thanks"
Analogously for front-vowel verbs (the following example is synem 'tune'):
synmänä, synmer, synmy, synmi, synmäk, ssynmäär, synmäy, synmäner, synmäd, synmääv.
Past
The past tense is marked by the particle go or g' which is used before the verb. This comes from a construction that translates to "it was the case that ...", which was used in pre-modern Bhadhagha.
Future
The future tense is derived from the Old Bhadhagha future tense:
moltana, molter, molta, moltaner, moltad, moltar, moltaav
Verbal noun
The verbal noun is much more regular than in Bhadhagha, and is consistently marked with -ax.
Syntax
Eivo is head-initial (with exceptions in poetry). It usually uses VSO word order; the focused constituent is fronted.
Noun phrase
ci and to are used as determiners before the noun. The "unspecified"/"irrealis" determiner to is used when asking question or in negative statements.