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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 Nithland (''Niδyaskema''), a parallel-Earth Ukraine and Belarus.
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| Modern Nithish is notable for mostly preserving PIE's syllabic resonants. However, Nithish consonants display various innovations including Grimm's law taken a step further (as in Dutch in our timeline).
| | '''Riphean''' is a para-Balto-Slavic language of [[Verse:Ed Dynje|Ed Dynje]], spoken in our Poland, Prussia, Latvia and Lithuania. It is inspired by Czech and Dutch. |
| | == TODO == |
| | * ''dzas'' 'gas' (from g'hh2sos, cognate to ''chaos'') |
| | === UDHR === |
| | ''Wiži dzíni kiman waleni um lejki zwem chejn um zwame đejžem.'' |
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| ==Numbers==
| | /ˈʋɪ{{ž}}ɪ ˈdziːɲɪ ˈkɪman ˈʋaleɲɪ ɪm ˈlɛjkɪ zʋɛm xɛjn ɪm ˈzʋamɛ ˈðɛjʒɛm/ |
| aina, twā, δriye, γeδure, vaiγe, zes, zevu, astu, nȯ, teγu
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| ==Grammar==
| | (um ~ Latin ambō) |
| Nithish has three noun genders, termed animate, inanimate and collective by native grammarians. These correspond to masculine, neuter and feminine genders in other Indo-European languages. The correlation between grammatical gender and biological gender is much less in Nithish than in other IE languages, due to the influence of Uralic languages.
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| As in Latin and Greek, Nithish has various declension paradigms for nouns. Some common ones are:
| | hejn ~ τῑμή 'honor', đejše ~ teisė |
| *first declension nouns - inanimate suffixless, animate ''-a'', collective ''-e''
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| *second declension nouns - ''-i'', independent of gender
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| *third declension nouns - ''-u'', independent of gender
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| Gender has been almost completely regularized in Nithish, again due to Uralic influence -- it is correlated with morphology, so all nouns ending in ''-e'' are collective, even nouns like ''aste'' (bone), which derives from the Old Nithish neuter noun ''haste''.
| | == Phonology == |
| | Riphean has consistent initial stress and a prosody similar to Czech. |
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| | == Morphology == |
| | === Nouns and adjectives === |
| | <poem> |
| | 'the happy person' |
| | nom. zachistľuwe dzín, zachistľuwi dzíni |
| | acc. zachistľuwou dzín, zachistľuwej dzíni |
| | gen. zachistľuwez dzínez, zachistľuwiž dzíni |
| | dat. zachistľuwem dzín, zachistľuwame dzínem |
| | </poem> |
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| | === Numerals === |
| | ejn, twá, đrí, cheđur, víg, zešt, zevouđ, estuđ, ňouđ, tezou |
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| | ejnľez, twáľez, đríľez, cheđurľez, víľez, zešľez, zevaľez, estľez, ňouľez, twácouđi |
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| | đrícouđi, cheđurcouđi, vícouđi, zešcouđi, zevacouđi, escouđi, ňucouđi, stou? (random change from kmtom -> ktom, influenced by the ordinal stouđe <- ktm-tos) |
| | == Swadesh list == |
| | <poem> |
| | I: ec |
| | thou: đu |
| | he: iž |
| | we: muž |
| | ye: juž |
| | they: |
| | this: siđe |
| | that: đađe |
| | here: sur |
| | there: đur |
| | </poem> |