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 '''Evonish''' (subject to constant renaming) is a constructed language (for a possible constructed world) mostly limited to my day dreaming and notebooks.  It is a-posetriori and influenced primarily by (West) Germanic, (Insular) Celtic, and Russian. Its phoneme inventory is based on [[w:General American pronunciation|General American phonology]]. The wordstock has many influences of [[w:Germanic languages|Germanic languages]], [[w:Celtic languages|Celtic languages]], [[w:Slavic languages|Slavic languages]], and some [[a priori]] vocabulary.
 Imagine Germanic tribes such as the Anglo-Saxons with eastern tribes gathering together with Celts and sailing the Baltic Sea. They landed near modern day Saint Petersburg where they established their own nation, absorbing some northern Russian groups. Essentially, it is the Romania of the Northwest in a sense. Sweet maps of this will be made.
-The objectives are:
-*to create a poetic, flowing language
-*to preserve old Germanic grammar
-*to preserve Celtic vocabulary
-*to create a left-hand friendly writing system
-'''It is open to editing by all interested in a conlang of its influences'''.
-Previous Task: Define Goals -->
-'''Current Task: Determine Consonants''' -->
-Next Task: Determine Vowels
 {{ClassMeter
 |Name       = Evonish
-|NativeName = ''undecided''
+|NativeName = Evonic (?)
 |Type       = Fusional
 |Alignment  = Nominative-Accusative
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 |relativeclause = mixed
 |nounclause = final
-|order = SVO
+|order = V2
 |Tonal      = No
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 |Modality=
 |Words=}}
-==Grammatischer Wechsel==
-The language is descended from Proto-Germanic. Thus it includes Grimm's Law and Verner's Law; however, it retains a unique variant, as does all modern Germanic descendants. It's variant of these two laws creates different sound changes within verb paradigms known as the Grammatischer Wechsel.
+==Objectives==
-Commas indicate the second phoneme occurs in the case of Verner's Law. Phonemes in parenthesis were allophones and innovations in their respective languages.
+*to create a poetic, flowing language
-{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg"
+*to preserve old Germanic grammar
-!Proto-Indo-European
+*to preserve Celtic vocabulary
-!Proto-Germanic
+*to create a left-hand friendly writing system
-!Old Norse
-!Old English
+Previous Task: Define Goals -->
-!Old High German
+'''Current Task: Determine Consonants''' -->
-!Evonish
+Next Task: Determine Vowels
-|-
-!*p
-|*ɸ, β
-|f
-|f (v)
-|f, b
-|???
-|-
-|}
 ==Phonology==
-Æ-Tensing, a process by which the vowel /æ/ is raised and lengthened to produce /æ̝ˑ/ before a nasal consonant, is in free variation and is merely an allophone.
+Æ-Tensing, a process by which the vowel /æ/ is raised and lengthened to produce /æ̝ˑ/ before a nasal consonant, is in free variation and is merely an allophone. Iotation may feature in the language for a form of inflection. Palatalization occurs in /sk/ consonant clusters rendering them /ʃ/.
 ===Consonants===
 Parenthesis indicate allophones.
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 ! scope="col" style="width: 66px; "|
 |-
-| style="text-align: center;"|/m/
+| style="text-align: center;"|m /m/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/n/
+| style="text-align: center;"|n /n/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ŋ/
+| style="text-align: center;"|ŋ /ŋ/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Nasal
 |-
-| style="text-align: center;"|/p/ /b/
+| style="text-align: center;"|p /p/ b /b/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/t/ /d/
+| style="text-align: center;"|t /t/ d /d/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/k/ /g/
+| style="text-align: center;"|k /k/ g /g/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Plosive
 |-
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/f/ /v/
+| style="text-align: center;"|f /f/ v /v/
-| style="text-align: center;"|/θ/ /ð/
+| style="text-align: center;"|þ /θ/ ð /ð/
-| style="text-align: center;"|/s/ /z/
+| style="text-align: center;"|s /s/ z /z/
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ʃ/
+| style="text-align: center;"|c /ʃ/ /ʒ/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/x/
+| style="text-align: center;"|x /x/
-| style="text-align: center;"|/h/
+| style="text-align: center;"|h /h/
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Fricative
 |-
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;" colspan="3"|/ɹ/
+| style="text-align: center;" colspan="3"|r /ɹ/
-| style="text-align: center;"|/j/
+| style="text-align: center;"|j /j/
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ʍ/ /w/
+| style="text-align: center;"|q /ʍ/ w /w/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
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 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/l/
+| style="text-align: center;"|l /l/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
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 ! scope="col" style="width: 90px; "|
 |-
-| style="text-align: center;"|/i/
+| style="text-align: center;"|i /i/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/u/
+| style="text-align: center;"|u /u/
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Close
 |-
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ɪ/
+| style="text-align: center;"|i /ɪ/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ʊ/
+| style="text-align: center;"|y /ʊ/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Near-close
 |-
-| style="text-align: center;"|/e/, /e˞ː/
+| style="text-align: center;"|e /e/, er /e˞ː/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/o/
+| style="text-align: center;"|o /o/
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Close-mid
 |-
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ə/
+| style="text-align: center;"|e /ə/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Mid
 |-
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ɛ/, /ɛ˞ː/
+| style="text-align: center;"|e /ɛ/, er /ɛ˞ː/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ɝː/
+| style="text-align: center;"|ur /ɝː/
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ʌ/ '''·''' /ɔ/, /ɔ˞ː/
+| style="text-align: center;"|u /ʌ/ '''·''' /ɔ/, or /ɔ˞ː/
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Open-mid
 |-
-| style="text-align: center;"|/æ/ (æ̝ˑ)
+| style="text-align: center;"|a /æ/ (æ̝ˑ)
 | style="text-align: center;"|
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 | style="text-align: center;"|
 | style="text-align: center;"|
-| style="text-align: center;"|/ɑ/, /ɑ˞/
+| style="text-align: center;"|a /ɑ/, ar /ɑ˞/
 ! style="text-align: center; "|Open
 |}
 ==Writing==
-The writing system may be from right to left. The thirty letter alphabet is a modified Latin alphabet that contains the following characters, in no real order:
+The writing system may be from right to left. The thirty letter alphabet is a modified Latin alphabet that contains the following bookstaves:
-*a, e, i, o, u, y
+*a, b, c, d, ð, e, f, g, h i, j, k, l, m, n, ŋ, o, p, q (ƕ), r, s, t, þ, u, v, w (ƿ), x, y, z
-*p /p/, b /b/
-*t /t/, d /d/
-*þ /θ/, ð /ð/
-*f /f/, v /v/
-*k /k/, g /g/
-*x /x/, h /h/
-*l /l/, r /ɹ/
-*m /m/, n /n/
-*ŋ /ŋ/, j /j/
-*s /s/, z /z/
 *ṡ /ʃ/, ż /ʒ/
-*ƕ(q) /ʍ/, ƿ(w) /w/
 The [[IPA for Varevon]] is sorely out of date, and is subject to change soon. A dot is placed over s and z which changes them to distinct, but related sounds; these are regarded as separate letters. Umlauts are written with a diaeresis/umlaut, and doubled vowels indicate long vowels or gemination.
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 Lorem Ipsum.
 ==Morphology==
-===Adjective===
+===Adjectives===
 Certain adjectives decline only in an attributive position; they do not in a predicative position. Cf. [[w:German language|German]] ''die schwarze Magd'' vs ''die Magd ist schwarz''. Some adjectives undergo mutation. Furthermore, there are many common affixes which form adjectives, whose list will be available in time.
-===Noun===
+===Mutations===
+====Ablaut====
+In progress
+====Grammatischer Wechsel====
+The language is descended from Proto-Germanic. Thus it includes Grimm's Law and Verner's Law; however, it retains a unique variant, as does all modern Germanic descendants. It's variant of these two laws creates different sound changes within verb paradigms known as the Grammatischer Wechsel.
+Commas indicate the second phoneme occurs in the case of Verner's Law. Phonemes in parenthesis were allophones and innovations in their respective languages.
+{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg"
+!Proto-Indo-European
+!Proto-Germanic
+!Old Norse
+!Old English
+!Old High German
+!Evonish
+|-
+!*p
+|*ɸ, β
+|f
+|f (v)
+|f, b
+|???
+|-
+|}
+====Umlaut====
+===Nouns===
 Their declension depends upon case and number. The plural genitive ending is used in compound words much like kennings. The umlaut occurs in some plurals, in some cases, and sometimes in whole words. The vocative, instrumental, and locative forms disappeared since Proto-Germanic. A pseudo-vocative form is made with the clitic O' (from Celtic) and uses the zero conjugation.
 ====Strong====
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 |-
 |}
 ==Syntax==
 ===Comparisons===
 Comparative forms use a particle followed by the noun(s) being compared to. Depending on that noun's case will determine which noun is first making the comparison. These can imply drastically different meanings, for example:
 *"He ate pie quicker than '''I'''" would yield "than <u>I ate pie</u>" (in this example the compared noun is in the nominative).
 *"He ate pie quicker than '''me'''" would yield "than <u>he ate me</u>" (in this example the compared noun is in the accusative).
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 *Verb.
 Relative clauses follow the same pattern as independent clauses when appended to independent clauses and follow the dependent pattern when appended to a dependent clause.
 ==Dictionary==
 {{Kinship
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 [[Category:Conlangs]]
 [[Category:A posteriori]]
-[[Category:West Germanic languages]]
+[[Category:Germanic languages]]
 [[Category:Varevonic]]

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