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Revision as of 02:32, 13 November 2017

Old Eevo (Eevo: Eevo Dair) is a Talmic language which arose from northern dialects of Thensarian. Its descendants are Eevo, Bhadhagha, and Tumacan. Its aesthetics is based on Old Irish.

Primitive Eevo

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless t /t/ c /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless φ /φ/ s /s/ h /h/
voiced [z]
Trill r /r/
Approximant v /ʋ/ l /l/ j /j/


Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i /i/ ī /iː/ u /u/ ū /uː/
Mid e /ɛ/ o /ɔ/
Open a /a/ ā /aː/

The diphthongs are ae ao ei eo iu oe ui.

Todo

  • tobynis = to be like
  • Keep ħ from Thensarian? or change ħ to ŋ
  • immer = now
  • Prefixes:
    • ar-: on, at
    • (deut.) as-: telic
    • (prot.) de-, (deut.) do-: in, at
    • é-: with, co-
    • fin-/sin- = well, thoroughly
    • for-: causative, through
    • (prot.) ful-, (deut.) fol-: around, back
    • (prot.) gel-, (deut.) gol-: up, out
    • ro-: down
    • sol-: a causative
    • (prot.) su-, (deut.) so-: towards
    • (prot.) sur-, (deut.) sor-: back
    • (prot.) u(cc)-, (deut.) oc-: from

Phonology

Consonants

  • b c d f g h l m n ŋ p r s t /b k d f g h l m n ŋ p r s t/
  • "Lenition": ḃ ch ḋ fh ġ ṁ ph sh th /bʰ kʰ dʰ fʰ gʰ mʰ pʰ sʰ tʰ/
  • "Eclipsis": ᵐb ᵑc ⁿd ᵑg ᵐf ᵐp ⁿs ⁿt /ᵐb ᵑk ⁿd ᵑg ᵐf ᵐp ⁿs ⁿt/
  • Geminates: cc ll nn ŋŋ pp rr ss tt /kː lː nː ŋː pː rː sː tː/

Vowels

  • a e i o u /a e i o u/
  • á é í ó ú /aː eː iː oː uː/
  • ai ei io oi ui
  • ae ao ái éi eó éu ia ío íu iú ói oí ua úi uí

All five short vowels a e i o u could occur in a word-final unstressed syllable.

Morphology

Main article: Old Eevo/Morphology

Syntax