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Nithish (''niδiske ṛstine'', from the word ''niδya'' "one's own") is an Indo-European language in the Nithic branch, a satem branch in a clade with [[Azalic]]. It's spoken in a parallel-Earth Ukraine, Belarus, and Korea, and is influenced by Uralic languages. It's also spoken in the island of Nōye Ceme (Isle of Man in our timeline), and substantial Nithish-speaking communities exist in parts of parallel-earth Russia, Alaska and Tibet. More recently it has absorbed words and calques from various Mediterranean languages. | Nithish (''niδiske ṛstine'', from the word ''niδya'' "one's own") is an Indo-European language in the Nithic branch, a satem branch in a clade with [[Azalic]]. It's spoken in a parallel-Earth Ukraine, Belarus, and Korea, and is influenced by Uralic languages. It's also spoken in the island of Nōye Ceme (Isle of Man in our timeline), and substantial Nithish-speaking communities exist in parts of parallel-earth Russia, Alaska and Tibet. More recently it has absorbed words and calques from various Mediterranean languages. | ||
Nithish has many accents and there is even a creole of Nithish, Korean and a little Nivkh, ''Bamaej-eo'' (literally "mixed language"), with some Korean words and mostly Korean syntax. Bamaej-eo, spoken in parallel Earth Sakhalin, is notable for being the only modern Nithic language which preserves the stop system of Middle Nithish, reinforced by Korean's stop system. | Nithish has many accents and there is even a creole of Nithish, Korean and a little Nivkh, ''Bamaej-eo'' (literally "mixed language"), with some Korean words and mostly Korean syntax. Bamaej-eo, spoken in parallel Earth Sakhalin, is notable for being the only modern Nithic language which preserves the stop system of Middle Nithish, reinforced by Korean's stop system. Another notable creole is Nithlish, spoken by Nithish people in Anglophone parts of [[Verse:Apple PIE]]. It has Nithish syntax but generally less free word order, influenced by English, and a general reduction in morphology (there is no grammatical case in Nithlish, as in Bulgarian). | ||
Modern Nithish is notable for mostly preserving PIE's syllabic approximants, ḷ and ṛ. However, Nithish consonants display various innovations including Grimm's law taken a step further (as in Dutch in our timeline). | Modern Nithish is notable for mostly preserving PIE's syllabic approximants, ḷ and ṛ. However, Nithish consonants display various innovations including Grimm's law taken a step further (as in Dutch in our timeline). | ||