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Bhadhagha (native name An Bhadhagha /a bʰadʰagʰa/, or colloquially just Bhadhagha) is a Talmic language closely related to Tíogall. It's inspired by Scottish Gaelic and Irish.

Todo

• Lanna de srasandhacht de h-aofrann cheallò = I'm a specialist in cello playing
• 's laobh = is there? (interrogative)
• camhna, sos, car = woman, man, person

Phonology

Based on "literally read Irish".

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	plain	m m	n n
	geminate		nn nː
	aspirated	mh mʰ
Stop	tenuis	p p	t t		c k
	aspirated	ph pʰ	th tʰ		ch kʰ
	prenasalized	bp ᵐp	dt ⁿt		gc ᵑk
	voiced	b b	d d		g g
	breathy voiced	bh bʱ	dh dʱ		gh gʱ
	voiced prenasalized	mb ᵐb	nd ⁿd		ng ᵑg
Fricative	plain	f f	s s			h h
	aspirated	fh fʰ	sh sʰ
	prenasalized	bhf bʰf	dhs dʰs
Liquid	plain		l l	r r̠
	geminate		ll lː	rr r̠ː

Lenition: Initials "lenite" as in Irish orthography, but null initials get an h-. In colloquial Bhadhagha all possible initials lenite: i.e. initial n, l, r, sp, st, sc are also "lenited" to nh, lh, rh, sph, sth, sch /nʰ, lʰ, rʰ, spʰ, stʰ, skʰ/.

Eclipsis: Initials "eclipse" as in Irish orthography, but s (if not in one of sp-, st-, sc-) also eclipses to dhs-.

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i /i/	ì /iː/			u /u/	ù /uː/
Mid	e /e/	è /eː/			o /o/	ò /oː/
Open			a /a/	à /aː/

Diphthongs are all read as written.

a in an unstressed syllable becomes e if the previous vowel ends in an /i/.

Morphology

Nouns

The definite article is an-L for singular nouns and na-E for plural nouns. Colloquial Bhadhagha may drop the definite article in the singular (leaving behind just the lenition), and also in the plural (leaving behind the eclipsis) if the initial C of the noun is "eclipsable" (i.e. is one of ∅, p, t, c, b, d, g, f, s).

Bhadhagha lost grammatical gender.

The Thensarian relativizer rin turned into a genitive marker: (an) schain ri h-Aodhàn (Aodhàn's friend). It can be omitted in casual Bhadhagha: schain h-Aodhàn.

Prepositions inflect the same way as in Tíogall. ri however uses the inflected forms of le (to): my = ri lion, your = ri leis, ... Casual Bhadhagha developed a new inflectional paradigm for ri: rìon, rìs, riù, rì, rè, rìom, rìod, rìoc, rìor.

Copula

Bhadhagha 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

Examples: Lanna dùbhòinn (I'm a teacher), Lù ìon (It's blue)

As in Welsh, the copula is also used with progressive verbs: Laidh (an) dhùbhòinn d'èinteach (The teacher is sleeping).

Verbs

The Bhadhagha verbal system is very different from Tíogall, and much closer to Äivö.

For one thing, Bhadhagha analogized the analytic forms of verbs to all persons, and fused the personal pronoun with the verb:

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"
Impersonal: molaobh "one thanks"

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 ...", which also survives in Äivö. Even non-lenitable consonants get aspirated in casual Bhadhagha, though in the written language a particle is used when the first consonant isn't lenitable.

The future tense however has a special set of suffixes, derived from the Old Tíogall future tense:

moltanna, moltair, moltù, moltaì, moltac, moltamh, moltaid, moltar

The verbal noun is extremely irregular in Bhadhagha (more so than in Tíogall). One somewhat common way of deriving verbal nouns is with a prefix (ao+N) but other verbal nouns use the suffixes -ach, -il and -ta/-te. Verbs loaned from Camalic simply use the stem as the verbal noun. Some verbal nouns are suppletive.

Bhadhagha is not split-ergative, unlike Tíogall.

Perfect tenses use the construction tainn ('after', often pronounced tann) followed by the verbal noun.

Syntax

Bhadhagha is a head-initial, topic-comment language with V2 order.

The man thanks the teacher = Shos molù dhùbhòinn (lit. the man, he thanks the teacher), or Dhùbhòinn mola shos hù (lit. the teacher, the man thanks him)

The teacher thanks the man = Dhùbhòinn molù shos (lit. the teacher, he thanks the man), or Shos mola dhùbhòinn hù (lit. the man, the teacher thanks him)

Relative clauses

Relative clauses work similarly:

Dhùbhòinn ri mhola shos hù - The teacher who the man thanked (lit: the teacher REL the man thanked him)

Dhùbhòinn ri mholù shos - The teacher who thanked the man (lit: the teacher REL he thanked the man)

Vocabulary

Bhadhagha uses native or Camalic words where Tíogall uses Netagin words; for example the word for school is suar-dùbhach 'house of learning' in Bhadhagha and tarsúdh in Tíogall. An example of a Camalic word in Bhadhagha is eafhad (cat), where Tíogall has zár from Netagin.

Future Bhadhagha

The dominant Talmic language in postmodern Clotricin, known as an Bhadhagha shearn, is derived from the Uithfeasaimh dialect of Bhadhagha. It has a simplified vowel system (fewer diphthongs) and a palatalization distinction in some consonants. (But it shouldn't be Irish gibby!) It also has a lot of loanwords from [Future Xaetjeon].

Example texts

The North Wind and the Sun

[to be edited]

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