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= Jeïos = | = Jeïos = | ||
The conlang 'Jeïos' [dʒɛɪ'ʝiːɔs] was created in the year 2012 by Marvin Johanning. | The conlang 'Jeïos' [dʒɛɪ'ʝiːɔs] was created in the year 2012 by Marvin Johanning. | ||
The name "Jeïos" comes from his username "Jeytas". It was created in the year 2010. His friend and him wanted to make a radio show on YouTube, so they had to think of a name. They chose to combine both of their names and ended up with Jeitas. When they | The name "Jeïos" comes from his username "Jeytas". It was created in the year 2010. His friend and him wanted to make a radio show on YouTube, so they had to think of a name. They chose to combine both of their names and ended up with Jeitas. When they tried that name, it was already used, so they switched the "i" with a "y" and Jeytas was the end result. Three years later in school, in chemistry class, Marvin was bored so he started working on a little language. He had to think of a name for it, so he took his username and changed it a bit. | ||
== The | == About the language == | ||
It was created as a language used by a time traveller in a movie, but has since then become more of an artistic language. It is also used to try out linguistic features that don't exist in a lot of languages yet. It is still a very small languages, with about 600 words (20.06.2015). The goal is, to make the language bigger, and eventually make it big enough to be able to really converse with it | |||
== Phonlogy == | |||
=== Vowels === | |||
The language has a very large vowel inventory. Most of the vowels come from German, but some are from Swedish and English. | The language has a very large vowel inventory. Most of the vowels come from German, but some are from Swedish and English. | ||
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[[File:Jeiios_Consonants.png|800px|]] | [[File:Jeiios_Consonants.png|800px|]] | ||
== The vocabulary == | |||
The vocabulary of Jeïos is largely based on Germanic Languages | |||