Verse:Lõis/Sketchbook

Sprachbünde

British

• Phonological features inspired by Proto-Inuit -> Greenlandic sound changes
• Evidentiality
• (Split) ergativity

Paleo-Iranian

Retroflex consonants

South India and Southeast Asia

No retroflexes? Pandoga and Palkhan would be typologically unusual

Ethio-IE and Ethio-Semitic

Habesīnan is an Indo-European language, spoken in Ethiopia in Lõis. In modern times it's mostly used as a liturgical and classical language, with the majority of the population speaking Togarmite.

Paḷkhan

Inspired by Kannada and Marathi

Some nativized (tadbhava) Sanskrit words

• ṇnima [ɽ̃n̪imɐ] "full moon" <- *puṇnima <- Sanskrit pūrṇimā
• pyaḷda "forest" <- ati-vṛddha "overgrown"
• mhoṇa "monk" <- śramaṇa

Proto-Palkhan -> Palkhan has an almost consistent stress shift to the second syllable causing the first syllable to get elided; this creates the retroflex-dental clusters and wreaks havoc with the morphology if there happen to be prefixes

separate words for numbers from 1 to 99

Palkhan borrows more from Sanskrit (even some derivational affixes) than Pandoga

Indian grammatical tradition

Includes historical linguistics? they may study the relationship between Greek and Sanskrit and develop a deep orthography that fits both (that could be Panini's claim to fame in Lõis!)

Polish Azalic

Inspired by Scots and Yiddish

Mixolydian

From PIE; t d dh -> tʰ d t

spoken in Albania?

PIE: h₂áu̯ei̯ h₁i̯osméi̯ h₂u̯l̥h₁náh₂ né h₁ést, só h₁éḱu̯oms derḱt. só gʷr̥hₓúm u̯óǵʰom u̯eǵʰed; só méǵh₂m̥ bʰórom; só dʰǵʰémonm̥ h₂ṓḱu bʰered.

• Proto-Mixolydian (tentative name): avī yasmī wilnō ne estʰ, sa ečʰwąs derčitʰ. sa girrų wačą wečetʰ, sa mēǰą parą; sa manį āčʰu peretʰ.
  • Nomadic Mixolydian (with Grimm): avī yasmī wilnō ne est, sa ešwąs deršiθ. sa girrų wačą wečeθ, sa mēǰą parą; sa manį āšu pereθ.
    • Levantine Mixolydian: contributed some words to English
  • Classical Mixolydian ("tentum" language, with Grassmann): avyō, kʰō vilnǭ ne tare, retʰvās vaide. mą girrų vaθą veθei, mą mēðą perą veθei; tʰu mą nērą kʰirsvą perei. Greek transcription: αϝιώ, χώ ϝιλνώμ νε ταρε, ρεθϝάς ϝαιδε. μαμ γιρρυμ ϝαϸαμ ϝεϸει, μαμ μέζαμ περαμ ϝεϸει, θυ μαμ νέραμ χιρσϝαμ περει.

Declension

• wilkʰas (wolf), wilkʰą, wilkʰasya, wilkʰai, wilkʰāt, wilkʰai; wilkʰās, wilkʰās, wilkʰą̄, wilkʰamas, wilkʰamis, wilkʰasu

Lexicon

ρεθϝας means 'horse' in Classical and reθwas means 'wheel' in Nomadic

smas/ainas, dwā, tʰrīs, kʰetʰwār, pʰenkʰe, swečʰs, septʰį, ačtʰau, newį, dečʰį -> Classical mas/ainas, dvā, tʰrīs, ketʰvār, penkʰe, vetʰs, septʰį, attʰau, nevį, detʰį

dūras: faint, soft (drifted from "distant")

leupyą (Nomadic): hobby (calqued from Old Togarmite)