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Aoife O'Flaherty (An Bhlaoighne and Irish: Aoife Ní Fhlaithbheartaigh An Bhl. /ˈao̞jfe̞ niː ˈfʰlajt̪ʰbʱe̞art̪ajgʱ/, Irtan Irish: /'iːfʲə nʲiː ˈl̪ˠahəɾˠt̪ˠɪɟ/ Ăn Yidiș and Hebrew: חמדה ני פֿל׳אַהארתּיהּ Irtan Ăn Cayzăn and Irta Modern Hebrew /ˈχɛmt̪⁼ə nɪ ˈwahərt⁼ɪh/ ) is an Irtan Canadian conlanger, video game composer and video game developer of Irish-Jewish descent. She is a native speaker of Irish and Welvington English (a fictional dialect of Canadian English inspired by Boston and Philadelphia English), is fluent in Ăn Yidiș and Irta Modern Hebrew, and can read Mandarin, Albionian, JBA, and Old Irish. She is a trans woman and a Reconstructionist Jew (not believing but moderately observant). She is best known for her game Verse:Méich Bhaonnáiqh (placeholder name) and its associated conlang, An Bhlaoighne.

Her favorite language families are Semitic and Albionian, in addition to her native Celtic.

See also Verse:Schngellstein, her Canon Tricin counterpart.

Disclaimer

The premise for this character and her languages are mainly Âthi Trydhen's. It is also based partly on Edna Ashe, one of Inthar's old characters, and Inthar contributed ideas for some languages and is now stepping back (as of February 7, 2022). We do not intend to publish a Méich Bhaonnáiqh game for public consumption.

Todo

Could Aoife be Irtan? most of the jokes in An Bhl are Irtan and she could have heard about some Trician stuff explaining dá ~ erku 'city'

(since pre-Trician Remonitionism is already very tolerant, Canada should be more than safe enough)

(Both Irta and Talma Irish should be Connacht-based, only Cualandian Irish is Munster-based)

(Aoife < *Awiswiyā < *h₂ewis-wih₂, so PCel *Awiswiyā enigenā awyī Wlateis Berxtī, Aoife should use Awiswiyā somewhere)

Biography

Aoife was raised in a secular Jewish family but became more practicing in her adult life.

Aoife is self-taught in most of her areas of expertise. She has a CS degree from ___ University; for her honors project she wrote a machine learning-based parser for glossing Old and Middle Irish texts. (maybe something psychoacoustics or tuning theory related is better; something to do with pseudo-JI chords?)

Conlangs

Aoife draws much of her inspiration from Semitic languages and most of her languages are directly inspired by Hebrew or Aramaic, in phonology, lexicon, grammar, history, or a combination thereof.

Her conlangs are often borderline kitchen-sinky and jokey/unnaturalistic (Tsrovesh and Shemroghian are notable exceptions) but she should still manage to make it work. People joke that Old Irish is an Aoife conlang ("What if an IE language had Hebrew begadkefat (but also other mutations) and VSO word order, and stem allomorphy way more unpredictable than Tiberian Hebrew")

Video games

  • (something with Méich Bhaonnáiqh in it), a science fantasy RPG series

Music

  • Wrote the soundtrack for Méich Bhaonnáiqh
  • small mos/edo person, favorite edo is 11edo
  • melodic, not too dark, but not above bittersweetness
  • likes counterpoint (isn't really a thing in Talman or Tsarfati Jewish music); her melodies show some Tsarfati Jewish influence

Poetry

Mostly experimental, as kitchen sinky and jokey as her conlangs

  • An Old Irish equivalent of Atz Kotzetz
    • lots of wordplay and similar-sounding forms, opaque verb forms, "Darmok and Jalad" references to Old Irish literature/history
  • same thing for Irtan Modern Internet English (of her particular subculture)
  • English, Hebrew and Ăn Yidiș dán díreach poems
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