Tigol

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Tigol/Swadesh list

Tigol/Lexicon

Tigol (Eevo: Tigol /tʰikɔ̃/, Amphirese: Tigifh), in the Eevosphere also called Old Eevo (Eevo: Eevo Dair /ˈɛɪvɔ taɪr/), is a Talmic language which arose from northern dialects of Thensarian. Its aesthetics is based on Old Irish orthography. Tigol is the language of many manuscripts. Its extreme grammatical complexity caused it to diverge rapidly into the modern Tigolic languages: Eevo, Amphirese, Bhlaoighne and Tummaka.

Primitive Eevo

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive voiceless t /t/ k /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Fricative voiceless s /s/ h /h/
voiced [z]
Trill r /r/
Approximant w /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
  • change ħ to ŋ
  • immer < *φimmirae < φinae mirae = now
  • Verb 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
    • imm-: immediately
    • (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
  • Derivational affixes:
    • -ach = verbal noun
    • -aitt = adjectivizer
    • -all = verbal noun, also abstract noun?
  • A nDessachthair = name of a museum (lit. "that you may see inside her [the Second Mover]")

Orthography

Talmic script; borrow h from Tergetic or Tamil script

Phonology

Consonants

  • b c d f g 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 h ṁ ph sh th /bʰ kʰ dʰ fʰ gʰ h 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: Tigol/Morphology

Syntax