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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 < *inmer < φinā birā = 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