Heleasic

Heleasic
Pronunciation	[/hɪfəɹtonɪ̀x lɑ̂t/]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Lõis
Native speakers	90 million (2015)
Language family	Indo-European Hellenic Ancient Greek Heleasic

Hyper-tonal Hellenic (Placeholder name: /hɪfəɹtonɪ̀x lɑ̂t/) is a tonal descendant of Ancient Greek spoken in Lõis's India, inspired by Khmer, Hebrew and English. It has final stress and 3 tones.

Diachronics

When should stress shift occur? Only certain endings should drop: (-ος, -α, -ον should drop)

pterón > ftèɹ 'wing'

xērós > sʰæ̀ɹ 'dry'

théma > tʰém 'thing'; pl. thémata > tʰémàt > tʰɪmât 'things'

Phonology

Consonants

/p b pʰ f t d tʰ k g kʰ m n l ɹ s sʰ z/

Vowels

/ɐ ɛ o ɪ ə ɑ æ e i u y iə uə ai ei au ou əɹ æɹ ɒɹ eɹ iɹ yɹ ʊɹ/

Only /ə əɹ o ɪ/ may occur in unstressed syllables.

Tones

Hyper-tonal Hellenic has 3 tones: high, low and falling.

Morphology

Nouns

Declension

Cases: Nominative and oblique; gender marked by mutations

NOM: ἄνθρωπος > əntʰrôːp; ἄνθρωποι > əntʰropì

OBL: ἀνθρώπου > əntʰropû; ἀνθρώπων > əntʰropɑ̂n

Verbs

Verbs are inflected for person but are not pro-drop.