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'''Knench''' (/nɛntʃ/, from Old Knench ''χnānī'' via [[Old Azalic]] '' | '''Knench''' (/nɛntʃ/, from Old Knench ''χnānī'' via [[Old Azalic]] ''{{ng}}noinisχ''; natively ''Xnɪəni'' /xnɪəni/ or ''nɨɨm Xnɪən'' /nɨːm xnɪən) is a Semitic language spoken in the Irta timeline and the closest living relative to Hebrew in Irta. The name of the language comes from Ancient Knench ''kanaȝn'' 'Canaan'. Knench has received strong Azalic influence throughout its history since Ancient Knench times, and genetic studies have shown that the Knench are descendants of Azalic speakers who adopted a Canaanite language. The language descends from a close relative of Biblical Hebrew which was spoken in North Africa (which was spoken instead of our Punic in Irta), but its grammar is far less synthetic than its ancestor: lexical verbs were completely restructured to use constructions with auxiliaries and infinitives instead of the older prefix and suffix conjugations, and it has lost grammatical gender like [[Togarmite]] and [[Far East Semitic]]. Knench has many loanwords from various sources including Greek, Azalic, Coptic, Berber, Arabic, Aramaic, Romance, and English. | ||
A majority of modern Knench people are Muslim; some are Christian, Jewish or neopagan. There is a Judeo-Knench, with Hebrew and Aramaic loanwords. | |||
It's inspired grammatically by Welsh and Irish, and aesthetically by English, | It's inspired grammatically by Welsh and Irish, and aesthetically by English, Danish, [[Naeng]], and Khmer. | ||
== Names == | == Names == | ||
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==== Interrogative pronouns ==== | ==== Interrogative pronouns ==== | ||
* ''da'' = what? (nominal) | * ''da, ida'' = what? (nominal) (*hajj dabar 'what thing') | ||
* ''ew'' = who? (*2ajj hū) | * ''ew'' = who? (*2ajj hū) | ||
** poetic ''mi'' | ** poetic ''mi'' | ||
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* ''énə'' = where? | * ''énə'' = where? | ||
* ''məðé'' = when? | * ''məðé'' = when? | ||
* '' | * ''əziəp'' = why? (the reason something happened) (or from another phrase of the form "ayy [NOUN]") | ||
* | * ''maləx'' = why? (the reason someone does something) (*ma lak 'what's the matter') | ||
* ''xam'' = how many? | * ''xam'' = how many? | ||
* ''xiəlt'' = how? | * ''xiəlt'' = how? | ||
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!rowspan=2| ''śuð'' | !rowspan=2| ''śuð'' | ||
! future indep. | ! future indep. | ||
| '' | | ''fow(ð) i'' | ||
| ''fows tə'' | | ''fows tə'' | ||
| ''fows ti'' | | ''fows ti'' | ||