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-'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' (''ahn-veer-EEZ''; natively ''i hAnvirav'' /i hənviˈɾav/ or ''i γgaaħ hAnvirav'' /i ɣaːħ hənviˈɾav/) is a [[Talmic languages|Talmic language]] (in the Tigolic subbranch of Talmic, which also includes [[Eevo]]). On the planet of [[Verse:Tricin|Tricin]] ({{SUBPAGENAME}}: ''i Samąx'' /i səˈmɔːx/), it is an analogue of German in terms of influence and grammar. It is inspired by Irish, Arabic, Persian, Polish, Romanian and German. {{SUBPAGENAME}} is the official language of the Talman nation [[Verse:Tricin/Anvir|Anvir]] and of former colonies in Cualuav and Txapoalli; after [[Eevo]], it is the second-largest Talmic language in terms of number of speakers, though most modern speakers know Eevo. Like most modern Talmic languages, {{SUBPAGENAME}} is a descendant of [[Thensarian]]. Like with German, there is a Standard Anvirese and various regiolects.
+'''{{SUBPAGENAME}}''' (''ahn-veer-EEZ''; natively ''i hAnvirav'' /i hənviˈɾav/ or ''i γgaaħ hAnvirav'' /i ɣaːħ hənviˈɾav/) is a minority [[Talmic languages|Talmic language]] (in the Tigolic subbranch of Talmic, which also includes [[Eevo]]).
-Thanks in large part to the printing press, Modern {{SUBPAGENAME}} rapidly gained prominence over a larger area in Northern Talma and came to serve as a lingua franca for northern mainland Talma. Today, {{SUBPAGENAME}} still enjoys status as a "cultured" language and is one of the most widely taught foreign languages.
-This language began as ''Tíogall'', which was a thought experiment posing the question "What would Irish look like with umlaut instead of palatalization?". For a while it developed as an Irish-German hybrid. At one point I decided to remove all "giblangs" from modern Tricin, or languages with the aesthetics of one natlang (unless the premise was funny, like [[Bhlaoighne]] or [[Clofabosin]]). Since Tíogall was basically an Irish with German characteristics, it was abandoned. I still felt that Talmic languages needed somewhat more internal diversity (in particular, a "German" analogue to Eevo's "English"), so I decided to revive this project. Since I don't want a German analogue to be so obviously Hiberno-German, this time I'm eschewing obviously German features in the aesthetic such as front rounded vowels, and I'm trying a somewhat Romanian, West Slavic and Arabic aesthetic. Also grammar-wise, while keeping a somewhat Celtic grammar (e.g. mutations, head-initial syntax), I'm playing with decidedly non-Celtic grammatical features such as split-ergativity (which was in my original Tíogall), and a singulative-collective-plurative system.
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