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| 1st person || mæ peze'''n''' || mec peze''me''
| 1st person || mæ peze'''n''' || mec peze'''me'''
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| 2nd person || sæ peze'''d''' || tec peze''te''
| 2nd person || sæ peze'''d''' || tec peze'''te'''
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| 3rd person || hæ peze || hec peze'''vad'''
| 3rd person || hæ peze || hec peze'''vad'''

Revision as of 14:40, 13 September 2016

Medh Nghêl is the lingua franca of Tumhan. It's a Finnic language with a Sindarin-like aesthetic.


Introduction

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Vowels

Prosody

Stress

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Pronouns

Pronouns in Medh Nghêl inflect by polarity (positive/negative). There are also copular pronouns which historically derive from contractions of pronouns with the copula, which inflect by tense (present/past) and mood (indicative/subjunctive).

Person Simple (non-copular) Copular
indicative subjunctive
positive negative present past present past
positive negative positive negative positive negative positive negative
1sg mine mole minœl moli minœlyd môth minœ̂th môthol minœ̂thœl
2sg sine sole sinœl soli sinœlyd sôth sinœ̂th sôthol sinœ̂thœl
3sg animate hæne ho hænœl holi hænœlyd hôth hænœ̂th hôthol hænœ̂thœl
3sg inanimate proximal seio seiœl seioli seiœlyd seioth seiœ̂th seiothol seiœ̂thœl
3sg inanimate distal toe tôo toiol tôoli toiolud tôoth toiôth tôothol toiôthol
1pl mec molem meiœl molim meiœlyd môthim meiœ̂th môthimol meiœ̂thœl
2pl tec tolet teiœl tolit teiœlyd tôthit teiœ̂th tôthitol teiœ̂thœl
3pl animate hec hova heiœl holiv heiœlyd hôthiv heiœ̂th hôthivol heiœ̂thœl
3pl inanimate proximal nêd nede nêdo nêiœl nêdoli nêiœlyd nêdoth nêiœ̂th nêdothol nêiœ̂thœl
3pl inanimate distal nôd node nôdo nôiol nôdoli nôiolud nôdoth nôiôth nôdothol nôiôthol

Verbs

Verbs in Medh Nghêl have four principal parts: the infinitive stem, which ends in -dh, -n, -l, -r, or -th; the present stem; the past stem; and the supine stem, which ends in -m.

Tenses

The simple present is analogous to the English simple present. It uses the simple pronouns with the following suffixes attached to the present stem:

Singular Plural
1st person -n -me
2nd person -d -te
3rd person no ending -vad
Negative no ending

For example, here's the conjugation of pêth (to wash), which has the following stems: infinitive pêth, present peze-, past pezi-, and supine pezem.

pêth Singular Plural
1st person mæ pezen mec pezeme
2nd person sæ pezed tec pezete
3rd person hæ peze hec pezevad
Negative mine/sine/hæne/... peze

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources