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Aevehāne
Aevehāne
Pronunciation	[aeveha:ne]
Created by	IlL
Language family	Quame Aevehāne
Early form	Proto-Quame
Writing system	Latin

Aevehāne (we Aevehāne /we aeveha:ne/ < Proto-Aevehāne *ąiweθwānē < PQ *φan-gwetwaʀnoi 'self-language') is a Quame language inspired by Polynesian languages, Japanese, Irish, Greek and Elu Prakrit. It is spoken by the Aeharo people, originally native to the north Etalocian archipelago Ualāho we Sāvea /uala:ho we sa:vea/ (Proto-Aevehāne uhalāxo xwe sāṁēh < PQ uslākos φin- stāmeis) 'Home of the Six' and is an official language in parts of Eastern Talma and Northern Etalocin.

should have uncannily Eevo like words (PTal > Eevo has séimhiú)

denasalize VN before C or #

Vocab

• enaʻa = "ditch" < PQ *wjénəqʷs 'water'
• woaḍea = "stick" < PQ *kʷ'ondas, *kʷ'onday 'body'
• nāwi = "world" < PQ *snākʷis 'homeland' (~ Naquian Nāquiz, Anbirese snae 'country')
• vaero = tree
• veli = name
• we = def article (~ Tigol in)
• deheno = little
• vehāne = language
• ae- = self
• hoʻo = river (~ Tigol soch, from soqos)
• ʻesi = segment (qesti-)
• asi = but (asti)
• Veāho = a name
• skwamis > wavi 'mountain'
• skanio- > xaino 'dear, fellow'
• slāmos > halāvo 'good'
• skaxtoi > xątē > xaete 'corpse'
• tnāgī 'believe' > 2nāgī > 'onāgi
• texts > teata 'child'

os, om > o

oi > e

is/im/ī > i

us/um/ui > u

s > ø

no final -a?

ōs/ēs/īs/ūs/ās > oa/ea/ia/ua/ā

Diachronics

single j/s/intervocalic w loss; séimhiú single consonants like crazy (but syncope doesn't happen!) (Irish/Hebrew style séimhiú doesn't occur as a 1-step systematic sound change anywhere else in Tricin)

vowels are very conservative relative to Proto-Eta-Talmic; unless subject to CL, denasalized or part of an inflectional ending both quality and length stay the same

It also treats all 3 stop series differently (when not initial)

Loosely, "what if Irish didn't syncope"

• Intervocalically, the single consonants become:
  • p t T k q Kw b d ḍ g ɢ Gw p' t' !t' k' q' Kw' s w j l r m n → ø h/ø r h h w b d ḍ g ʻ w p t ṭ k ʻ w ø ø ø l r v n
  • Greekification: VCj > ViC' where C' is depalatalized
• Clusters simplify:
  • sφ st sT sk > s s x x
  • s + voiced stop > z
  • φs ts ks > s s s
  • rC > C, lC > C
  • some ClV, CrV > CVlV, CVrV; but other Cl Cr simplify to l r
  • an en in on un > ae ea ī oa ou
  • stop + nasal > ʔ + nasal > vowel RTR-ization + nasal
• All final consonants disappear, but sometimes they leave a trace as diphthongization

How do I get all 25 VV hiatus combinations?

PCel wesākos 'raven' would become veāho (the vowel hiatus also occurs in Scottish Gaelic fitheach)

gabros > gaboro

Phonology

Aevehāne is predominantly CV like most languages in Northern Etalocin; however, unlike surrounding languages it lacks clicks.

Phonotactics

Only glottal stops are allowed syllable- and word-finally.

Consonants

• n ṇ /n ɳ/
• p t ṭ k ' /p t ʈ k ʔ/
• b d ḍ g /b~(implosive b)~m d ɖ g/
• f s x h /f s x h/
• v w /v w/
• r l /r l/

w is pronounced /ʍ/ by older speakers.

Vowels

a e i o u ā ē ī ō ū /a e i o u a: e: i: o: u:/

nasal vowels?

Stress

Stress is always penultimate.

Grammar

Aewehāne grammar is SOV with prepositions.

Nouns

Plurals are formed by reduplication, as in Roshterian.

• nāwi 'heavenly body' > nāwi-nāwi 'heavenly bodies'
• we Nāwi = Tricin

ei = direct object marker

Adjectives

masculine -o, feminine -e?

roado lāvo, kavore lāve

Verbs

Verbs do not inflect at all. Preverbal particles are used, as in Windermere.