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|colspan="2" bgcolor="#0000CC" color="#FFFFFF" align="center" |<font color="#FFFFFF"><big>'''Low Elvish (Norelbhrin)'''</big></font>
|colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFF00" align="center" |'''Low Elvish'''
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|valign="top"|Spoken in:
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|valign="top"|Timeline/Universe:
|valign="top"|Timeline/Universe:
||[[League of Lost Languages]], [[UKW World]]
||[[The Elvenpath (Jörg Rhiemeier)|The Elvenpath]]
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|valign="top"|Total speakers:
|valign="top"|Total speakers:
||5000 (LLL)
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|valign="top"|Genealogical classification:
|valign="top"|Genealogical classification:
||Family<br>
||[[Hesperic]]
&nbsp;[[Albic]]<br>
:[[Albic]]
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[South Albic]]<br>
::[[South Albic]]
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'''Low Elvish'''
:::'''Low Elvish'''
::::[[Avalonian]]
::::[[Sinjenich]]
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|valign="top"|[[Basic word order]]:
||VSO
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||Jörg Rhiemeier||2005-
|valign="top"|[[Morphological type]]:
||fusional
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|valign="top"|[[Morphosyntactic alignment]]:
||active-stative ([[fluid-S]])
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|colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFF00" align="center" |'''Created by:'''
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||Jörg Rhiemeier||2000-
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'''Low Elvish''' (Low Elvish '''Norelbhrin''') is a descendant of [[Old Albic]] spoken in southwestern Briatin.
'''Low Elvish''' is a branch of the [[South Albic]] group of languages.  It consists of two closely related languages: [[Avalonian]], spoken in the vicinity of Glastonbury, and [[Sinjenich]], the language of the Moonchildren, a group of nomadic Elves in Britain. The languages differ most prominently in vocabulary: Sinjenich has many more foreign loanwords, especially from [[Wikipedia:Romani language|Romani]] and [[Wikipedia:Shelta language|Shelta]].
 
Over time, the languages have undergone some fundamental changes.  For example, the Old Albic case endings are lost, but a new system of case marking has arisen by initial mutations.  The developments can be compared to similar developments that occured at the same time in other languages of western Europe.
 
[[Category:Atla]]
[[Category:Albic languages]]

Latest revision as of 09:27, 11 March 2020

Low Elvish
Spoken in: southwestern Britain
Timeline/Universe: The Elvenpath
Total speakers:
Genealogical classification: Hesperic
Albic
South Albic
Low Elvish
Avalonian
Sinjenich
Basic word order: VSO
Morphological type: fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment: active-stative (fluid-S)
Created by:
Jörg Rhiemeier 2000-

Low Elvish is a branch of the South Albic group of languages. It consists of two closely related languages: Avalonian, spoken in the vicinity of Glastonbury, and Sinjenich, the language of the Moonchildren, a group of nomadic Elves in Britain. The languages differ most prominently in vocabulary: Sinjenich has many more foreign loanwords, especially from Romani and Shelta.

Over time, the languages have undergone some fundamental changes. For example, the Old Albic case endings are lost, but a new system of case marking has arisen by initial mutations. The developments can be compared to similar developments that occured at the same time in other languages of western Europe.