Scellan

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Scellan
bris Eevo
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|bris ɛivɔ]]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Verse:Tricin
Extinct	220 v.T.
Language family	Quihum Talmic Thensaric Scellan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qth

Scellan is the dominant modern Talmic language; it descends from Old Eevo. 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 > ee
• e > y /ə/
• éi > oi > ua
• ó > oo
• u > w
• ú > u /y/
• bris = language (Netagin)
• jawþ = throat; (literary) language
• oos = even
• sos = man
• cavra = woman
• tytt = child
• car = person
• søøv = dog
• ciav = 1
• teþ = 2
• nee = 3
• døøv = 4
• søl = 5
• sdawv = 6
• rui = 7
• luað = 8
• berv = 9
• uar = 10
• echi = 11
• cnai = 12
• Old Eevo prefixes remain productive.
• D'eell naw'r = I love you

Background

See also: Proto-Talmic.

Phonology

Consonants

m n ŋ pm tn kŋ m̥ n̥ ŋ̊ (m n ŋ mm nn ŋŋ hm hn hŋ)

ʁ r~l χ r̥~ɬ (l r ll rr)

ph th kh (p t c)

hp ht hk (pp tt cc)

p t k (b d g)

f θ s x h (f þ s ch h)

v ð z j (v ð z j)

Vowels

/a ɛ i ɔ u œ y ə ai au eu iu ei øy ou iə uə ui/

a e i o w ø u y ai aw ew iw ee øø oo ia wa wi

Allowed unstressed vowels: a e i o

Diaereses (ä ë ï ö ø̈ ẅ) can be used on stressed vowels to distinguish them from diphthongs.

Intonation

Eevo has a distinctive intonation paradigm. Within said paradigm, some accents can sound like Irish accents, while some accents sound more like Valspeak.

• In declarative sentences, the stressed syllable of the focus word (if there is no focused constituent, the last word) has a lower pitch than the immediately preceding syllable. ("...mid ꜜ LOW mid...") This originates from discursive uptalk in older forms of Tíogall, which has since generalized to all declarative sentences. A few accents, such as Tumacan accents, do not use this pattern.
• In interrogative sentences, the stressed syllable of the focus word has a higher pitch than the syllable immediately before. ("... mid ꜛ HIGH mid ... ?")
• In exclamations, the pattern is "... mid ꜜ LOW-HIGH mid ... !", possibly with a gradual drop to low pitch in the end. Angry or indignant questions also use an exclamatory intonation.

Morphology

Eevo morphology tends to be simpler than most other Talmic languages; it has no grammatical gender and no mutation.

Nouns

The plural suffix is -e (< Old Eevo -ae) for nouns ending in consonants and -r for nouns ending in vowels.

• bris "language" > brise "languages"
• cavra "woman" > cavrar "women"

Pronouns

• naw = I
• fiar, 'r = you
• ha = he
• hi = she
• he = it
• cawv = we (exc.)
• gwad = we (inc.)
• swad = youse
• hawr = they

Adjectives

Adjectives do not inflect at all.

Copula

Eevo has no copula. Instead, the "predicate" or the focused constituent is fronted.

D'iant cy duvwŋ. = The teacher is sleeping.

Verbs

Present

The present uses the unmarked form of the verb followed by the subject: Ex. Mol naw ci duvwŋ means "I thank the teacher".

Progressive

To form the progressive, the particle dy is used before the verb.

Verbs referring to emotional states commonly use the progressive as well. For example, D'eell naw'r means "I love you."

Past

Preterite (ergative): Iantin naw. = I slept.

Perfect: Yv iant naw. = I have slept.

Future

The future tense is derived from the Old Eevo future tense.

• mol "thank" > molt
• iant "sleep" > iantyt

Syntax

Eevo is strongly 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.

Relative clauses

• en is used when the head is the subject in the relative clause
• re is used otherwise