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Nithish (''niδiske ṛstine'', from the word ''niδya'' "one's own") is an Indo-European language in the Nithic branch, a satem branch in a clade with [[Azalic]]. It's spoken in Nithland (''Niδyaskema''), a parallel-Earth Ukraine and Belarus. | Nithish (''niδiske ṛstine'', from the word ''niδya'' "one's own") is an Indo-European language in the Nithic branch, a satem branch in a clade with [[Azalic]]. It's spoken in Nithland (''Niδyaskema''), a parallel-Earth Ukraine and Belarus, and is influenced by Uralic languages. More recently it has absorbed words and calques from various Mediterranean languages. | ||
Modern Nithish is notable for mostly preserving PIE's syllabic approximants, ḷ and ṛ. However, Nithish consonants display various innovations including Grimm's law taken a step further (as in Dutch in our timeline). | Modern Nithish is notable for mostly preserving PIE's syllabic approximants, ḷ and ṛ. However, Nithish consonants display various innovations including Grimm's law taken a step further (as in Dutch in our timeline). | ||
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* En sive atvėziδe. "It is a good document". | * En sive atvėziδe. "It is a good document". | ||
* Ene atvėziδe siv. "That document is good". | * Ene atvėziδe siv. "That document is good". | ||
===Adjectives=== | |||
While Nithish doesn't have definite articles, Nithish adjectives inflect for definiteness. There are generally two forms for adjectives, the indefinite form and the definite form formed by postposing a clitic -za, -ze or -δa. The rules are as follows: | |||
*-za after animate singular nominative nouns | |||
*-ze after collective singular nominative and accusative nouns | |||
*-δa elsewhere | |||