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|nativename = ''an Snàchamh''
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'''Vanian''' is a Tigolic language closely related to [[Skellan]]. It is notable for its many vowels.
'''Vanian''' (native name ''an Bhànamh'' /ə va:nəv/, or ''bò Bhànamh'') is a [[Talmic language]] closely related to Skellan, spoken on the island nation [[Verse:Tricin/Snàcha|Snàcha]] off northern Talma. It's inspired by Irish and German.
==Todo==
==Todo==
*''camhna, sos, car'' = woman, man, person
Khmerization; crazy shifts before r
*''dèic'' (VN), ''deàmha'' (present tense, nonpronominal subject) = eat
*construct state
*get rid of /ŋ/
**initial ŋ- > g-
**non-initial single ŋ > n
**non-initial geminate ŋŋ > ng
*Tigol ''ae'', ''ao'' > ''ao'', ''ò''
*''An paichne hèarsamha am an ghathan ri'n aofharghal'' = The king approved the composer's work
 
==Morphology==
===Pronouns===
{| class="greentable lightgreenbg " style="width: 350px; text-align: center;"
|+
|-
!style="width: 50px; "|
!style="width: 100px; "|Singular
!style="width: 100px; "|Plural
|-
!|1
|''nà''
|''àmh''
|-
!|2 (familiar)
|''hiar''
|''sèid''
|-
!|2 (polite)
|colspan="2"| ''Stàna''
|-
!|3 (masculine)
|''u''
|rowspan="3"|''àr''
|-
!|3 (feminine)
|''i''
|-
!|3 (inanimate)
|''ci''
|}
 
Independent pronouns can be used as topics and direct objects.
 
As topic:
 
:''Nà tiann arainn oitheadh?''
:1SG why on-1SG suffer.VN
:Why must I suffer?
 
===Prepositions===
Prepositions are inflected, as in the ancestral Thensarian. The pronoun ''Sthàna'' is not fused with the preposition, however.
 
The sequences ''le'' + ''an'' and ''de'' + ''an'' contract to ''len'' /lɛn/ and ''den'' /dɛn/.
 
The 1sg and 2sg forms of prepositions are stressed on the last syllable; all other forms have initial stress.
{| class="greentable lightgreenbg " style=" text-align: center;"
|-
|+ '''Inflection of prepositions'''
|-
!|
!me!!you (sg.)!!him!!her!!it!!us!!you (pl.)!!them!!relative
|-
!|''ar'' 'on'
|''arainn''||''arais''||''or''||''ari''||''arè''||''arad''||''arac''||''arar''||''aram''
|-
!|''de-L, d'-'' 'in, at'
|''dèinn''||''dèis''||''diù''||''dì''||''dè''||''diad''||''diac''||''diar''||''diam''
|-
!|''ful'' 'around'
|''fulainn''||''fulais''||''fulu''||''fuili''||''fulè''||''fulad''||''fulac''||''fular''||''fulam''
|-
!|''geil'' 'from'
|''geilinn''||''geilis''||''gela''||''geili''||''geilè''||''geilid''||''geilic''||''geilir''||''geilim''
|-
!|''go'' 'with'
|''guainn''||''gòis''||''gù''||''guì''||''gè''||''guad''||''guac''||''guar''||''guam''
|-
!|''le'' 'to'
|''linn''||''leis''||''leo''||''lèi''||''lè''||''liod''||''lioc''||''lior''||''liom''
|-
!|''nae'' 'with (instrumental)'
|''naìnn''||''naìs''||''nae''||''naì''||''nè''||''naed''||''naec''||''naer''||''naem''
|-
!|''ri'' 'of'
|''rìnn''||''rìs''||''riù''||''rì''||''rè''||''rìod''||''rìoc''||''rìor''||''rìom''
|}
 
===Nouns===
The plural of nouns is almost always ''-a/-e'' if the noun ends in a C, or ''-nn'' if the noun ends in a V.
*''scain'' 'a friend', ''scaine'' 'friends'
*''bùta'' 'a cave', ''bùtann'' 'caves'
 
There are some irregular plurals:
*''sos'' 'a man', ''sois'' 'men'
 
Vanian lost grammatical gender.
 
The definite article is ''an'' for singular nouns and ''na'' for plural nouns.
 
Colloquial Vanian may also drop the plural suffix for definite plural nouns: ''na scain'' or ''na bùta'' for ''na scaine'' or ''na bùtann'' is often heard.
 
 
The Thensarian relativizer ''rin'' turned into a genitive marker: ''an scain ri Aodhàn'' (Aodhàn's friend).
 
===Adjectives===
Adjectives inflect similarly to nouns.
 
Attributive adjectives agree in mutation with the noun if the noun is definite. For example: "a black cat" is ''sàr flumh'' and "the black cat" is ''(an) shàr fhlumh''.
 
===Copula===
 
Snachian has a copula ''laidh'' which inflects as follows:
 
Present tense: ''lanna, lair, lù, laì, lac, lamh, laid, lar, laobh'' -- and ''laidh'' for nonpronominal subjects
 
Past tense: ''g'lanna, g'lair, g'lù, g'laì, g'lac, g'lamh, g'laid, g'lar, g'laobh'' -- and ''g'laidh'' for nonpronominal subjects
 
Future tense: ''lathanna, lathair, ...''
 
Examples: ''Lanna dùbhòinn'' (I'm a teacher), ''Lù ìon'' (It's blue)
 
As in Welsh, the copula is also used with progressive verbs:
 
:''Dhùbhòin lù d'èinteach.'' (The teacher is sleeping.)
:''Lamh de nachtach fhòdhan.'' (We're hunting the game.)
 
===Verbs===
The Snachian verbal system is very different from that of its ancestor [[Tigol]]. A modern Snachian verb has only three principal parts: the present analytic, the future analytic, and the verbal noun.
 
Snachian analogized the analytic forms of verbs to all persons, and fused the personal pronoun with the verb:
 
<poem>
molaigh ná -> molanna "I thank"
molaigh fiar -> molair "thou thankest"
molaigh hú -> molù "he thanks"
molaigh hí -> molaì "she thanks"
molaigh cé -> molac "it thanks"
molaigh -> molaigh or mola "... thanks" (with nonpronominal subjects)
molaigh gámh -> molamh "we thank" (both exc. and inc.!)
molaigh séid -> molaid "ye thank"
molaigh hár -> molar "they thank"
molaigh mé -> molam "... who/that thank(s)"
Impersonal: molaobh "one thanks"
</poem>
 
The past tense is marked by a séimhiú on the verb as in Irish, except that the suffixes are the same as in the present tense. This comes from a construction that translates to "it was the case that ...". Even non-lenitable consonants get aspirated in casual Snachian, though in the written language a particle is used when the first consonant isn't lenitable.
 
The future tense is derived from the Old Snachian future tense:
<poem>
moltanna, moltair, moltù, moltaì, moltac, moltamh, moltaid, moltar, moltam, moltaobh
</poem>
 
The verbal noun is extremely irregular in Snachian. One somewhat common way of deriving verbal nouns is with a prefix (''ao''+N) but other verbal nouns may use the suffixes ''-ach'', ''-t'', ''-ta/-te'', or ''-st''. Verbs loaned from Camalic simply use the stem as the verbal noun. Some verbal nouns are suppletive.
 
Perfect tenses use the construction ''tainn'' ('after', often pronounced ''tann'') followed by the verbal noun.
 
Verbs are negated with ''ia''.
The imperative uses the bare present tense stem; imperative sentences are in the form verb + object.
 
==Syntax==
Snachian is a head-initial, topic-comment language with V2 order. It is wh-in-situ.
 
===Faulty accusative===
The "faulty accusative" (which is also used in Welsh and Modern Standard Arabic) particle is ''am'', which is used for both definite and indefinite nouns. It is inserted before a noun after a head verb when there's a phrase between the head verb and the noun.
 
For example:
 
:''Shos h-aonca tua am u?'' (The head is ''h-aonca''; ''am'' is used because there is a constituent, ''tua'', between ''h-aonca'' and ''u''.)
:DEF.man PST-feed-NPRO who AM he
:Who fed the man?
 
Compare (with no ''am''):
 
:''Shos laidh tua tann aoncach ___ u?'' (The head is ''aoncach'')
:DEF.man COP who after feed-VN he
:Who has fed the man?
 
:''Shos h-aoncù ___ tua?'' (The head is ''h-aoncù'')
:DEF.man PST-feed-he who
:Whom did the man feed?
 
===Topic-prominence===
The man thanks the teacher = Shos molù dhùbhòin (lit. the man, he thanks the teacher), or Dhùbhòin mola shos am u (lit. the teacher, the man thanks him)
 
The teacher thanks the man = Dhùbhòin molù shos (lit. the teacher, he thanks the man), or Shos mola dhùbhòin am u  (lit. the man, the teacher thanks him)
 
Not all sentences have topics.
 
===Relative clauses===
Relative clauses work similarly. The resumptive pronoun ''mi'' is used to refer back to the head of the relative clause.
 
Dhùbhòinn ri mhola shos am mi - The teacher who the man thanked (lit: the teacher REL the man thanked RES)
 
Dhùbhòinn ri mholam shos - The teacher who thanked the man (lit: the teacher REL RES thanked the man)
 
Shois ri h-aoncam àr - The men who fed them (lit: the men REL RES fed them)
 
Shois ri h-aoncar mi - The men who they fed (lit: the men REL they fed RES)
 
To negate relative clauses, ''rinne'' is used instead of ''*ri cha''.
 
The structure of a non-restrictive relative clause is: HEAD (topicalized) + COMMENT, just like an independent clause with a topic, except that the resumptive pronoun is used.
 
:'''''Aofharghal h-aoncam nà, lù tainn rìoladh.'''''
:''The composer, who fed me, has left.''
 
===Complement clauses===
The complementizer is ''mha''; complement clauses, by default, are VSO and have no topic.
 
:'''''Linn càid mha dheàmha an saobh ri Praimhìn am an smodh.'''''
:''I know that Praimhìn's dog ate the bone.''
 
It is not impossible to topicalize in a complement clause however:
 
:'''''Ducnanna mha'n Tìdhseamh lac nòs as Somhàramh lac nuighil.'''''
:''I think Tizian is easy whereas Sowaár is hard.''
 
One can also use ''le'' + subject to introduce a complement clause:
 
:'''''Thobha Aladh liù am crìgh.'''''
:''Aladh said he had gone.''
 
==Vocabulary==
Vanian is more purist than Skellan, with fewer Windermere loans. Loans from Talmic languages are generally adapted to Vanian phonology.
 
*''-aim/-im'' = female suffix
 
==Example texts==
===The North Wind and the Sun===
[to be edited]
 
'''''Shìomcholl agus hAnn'''''
 
==Other resources==
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Vanian is a Tigolic language closely related to Skellan. It is notable for its many vowels.

Todo

Khmerization; crazy shifts before r

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