Uínlītska

This majority language of Norse America is derived from Old Norse, with adstrates from Germanic, Celtic, Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Inuit, in particular Scots, Scots Gaelic, English, Nunatsiaviummiutut, Nunavimmiutitut, Míkmak, Ojibwe, Abenaki and Beothuk.

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Phonology

See the Fínlǣsk Phonology article for details.

Orthography

Latin Script

p b		t d			k ᵹ	·
	f	s	sj / sk sᵹ	ð	ȝ	h
			tj dj / kj ᵹj
		(hl) l
m		n			(n)
ƿ (w)			j

i
e	ø	o
		a

The correct alphabetic order is:

a b d ð e f g h i j k l m n o p r s t ƿ z ȝ ·

Diacritics are acute for long vowels, macron (the linea nasalis) for nasalized vowels, and hook-below for the 'open' versions of e and o. They are all generally ignored when sorting (as is the blø̄na (or ·), the sign for the glottal stop).

The orthography is uncial, that is there are no capital letters. The customary letter used for /w/ is ƿ, although the ƿin dǿmewfti (the Roman wyn, i.e. w) is also found. Some inhabitants consider it a shibboleth for "outsiders", though this is a pretty vague and nonspecific term most often (but not always) refering to members of Christian Churches other than the Northern Church.

Writing Rules

IPA

b

d

ð

dʒ

f

ɡ

ɣ

h

ʔ

j

ç

k

x

l

ɬ

m

m̥

n

n̥

ŋ

ŋ̥

p

ɹ

ɹ̥

s

ʃ

t

tʃ

θ

v

w

ʍ

z

ʒ

Initial

b

d

ð

dj/ᵹj

hf

ᵹ

ȝ

h

·

j

hj

k

hȝ

l

hl

Vd Env

b

d

ð

ff

ᵹ

ȝ

ȝȝ

l

lh

Vls Env

bb

dd

ðð

f

ᵹᵹ

ȝȝ

ȝ

ll

l

Final

b

d

ð

f

ᵹ

ȝ

ȝȝ

l

lh

Runes

ᛈ ᛒ	ᛏ ᛞ			ᚴ ᚷ
ᚠ	ᛋ	ᛊ	ᚦ	ᚻ
	ᛐ	ᛣ
	ᛚ
ᛗ	ᚾ
ᚹ	ᚱ	ᛃ

ᛁ	ᛨ			ᚢ
ᛖ	ᚯ			ᛟ
		ᛡ
ᚫ				ᛅ

Morphology

Both verbs and nouns distinguish between single, dual and plural number.

Nouns

Summary

A fully inflected noun consists of (in order) a stem, inflected for number and case, optional marking for definiteness, and an optional postposition. For instance: sōrƿinmeð (with the son), hámsū (about a house).

Gender

Nouns are split into Masculine, Feminine and Neuter genders in the singular. In the dual and plural, Masculine and Feminine collapse into identically-formed paradigms, which is often called the Common plural.

Case

Nouns have six cases, and are classified into a number of declensions, called stems. There are three main stems, a, i, and u (associated with most nouns with open, front, and back vowels respectively) and a number of other, less-frequent stems (off-glide variants of the main stems, ja, ji, ju, ƿa, ƿi, ƿu, behave just like the plain versions). They are shown in the tables below with a summary of their uses and inflections.

The citation form of a noun includes a hyphen followed by the stem vowel.

See the section on umlaut and sandhi for a description of the notation used below.

Declensions

		a-stem			i-stem			u-stem
		Sg	Du	Pl	Sg	Du	Pl	Sg	Du	Pl
Nominative	Initiator	-a	-ja	-á	-∅	-η←-ja	-η←-∅	-∅	-η↘	-η↓-ar
Accusative	Undergoer	-∅	-ηj-∅	-∅	-η↑-∅			-∅	-η̽-ar	-η↓-ar
Genitive	From	-s		-ų	-η↓-ar			-η↓-ar	-ω↘-a	-η↓-a
Dative	To	-i		-ω↗-ū	-u			-u	-ώ-u	-ū
Locative	At	-η←		-jη↖
Oblique	Everything else	-ar		-r				-ur	-η↓r	-ω̽r

Examples

		hám-a			sōr-i			rún-u
		house			son			letter
		Sg	Du	Pl	Sg	Du	Pl	Sg	Du	Pl
Nominative	Initiator	háma	hámja	hámá	sōr	sœ̄rja	sœ̄r	rún	rón	rónar
Accusative	Undergoer	hám	hájm	hám	sūr			rún	rƿénar	rónar
Genitive	From	háms		hámų	sǭrar			rónas	róna	róns
Dative	To	hámi		hǫ́mū	sōru			rúnu	rúƿnu	rúnū
Locative	At	hámǽ		hámję́
Oblique	Everything else	hámar		hámr				rúnur	rúnór	rúnƿér

Article

Definiteness is marked as follows:

Definite To		Marking
Speaker	Listener	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
No	No	Not marked
Yes	No	-er	-ér	-eðð
Yes	Yes	-in	-ín	-it

Attributive Article

The fully-definite articles above are used with an initial h (i.e. hin, hín, hit) to precede adjectives and adverbs used attributively as parts of names, as opposed to "ordinary" articles suffixed to adjectives and adverbs to nominalise that quality. For instance bænn hin ǫðiȝ is Bjarn The Weathly, and bænn ǫðiȝin is the weathly Bjarn (as opposed to the other one).

Postpositions

Many common postpositions have become enclitics, and a process of their becoming instead enlargements of the case system is imminent, and arguably already underway in various colloquial lects.

Note: needs moar disambig.

Postposition	Nom	Acc	Gen	Dat	Loc	Obl
á			by means of	upon	on	in the manner of
af			from	out of		because of
at				to	near	towards
í			among	into, onto	in, within	during
eftí		along	in order to obtain	according to	behind	later than
flá			from			concerning
hfᵫ́ri			because of	against	in front of	earlier than
með			by means of	as well as	in combination with
of	above	over	concerning	because of	around, about	for
ǫ́			of	out of, from		made from
sjá	beside, at the side of; compared with; close by
til	in; of, concerning; on; as, for, to obtain; until, to, up to the time
útā	outside (of); beyond; without
ū			about, concerning	across	throughout
ᵫðð	reaching to, against, with; towards, at; in exchange for; by; (together) with, close to; because of
ᵫfí	above, over, at; across, upon

Postpositions show above with a leading hyphen have generally fused as enclitics.

Pronouns

Pronouns are marked for person, number and case. Additionally, pronouns carry inclusivity/exclusivity information for the first person not encoded elsewhere. See the respective sections above and below for more details on the individual systems.

Placeholder mostly-pure-ON pronouns

1st

2nd

3rd

Incl

Excl

Subject

Object

Sg

Du

Pl

Du

Pl

Sg

Du

Pl

Sg

Du

Pl

Sg

Du

Pl

Nominative

eg

fitt

fé

hðu

hðitt

hðér

an

ant

hðéj

hðatt

hðætt

ðǫ

Accusative

mik

okke

oss

hðikk

ᵫkke

ᵫððe

hánn

hánnt

ðá

ðat

ðet

ðǫ

Genitive

mín

okká

fǫ́

hðín

ᵫkkar

ᵫðar

æns

æntts

hðéjæ

hðess

hðentts

hðéjæ

Dative

Locative

Oblique

The 3rd Person Subject/Object forms are used to distinguish between an 3rd Person who is the subject of the current sentence/clause (using the Proximal) and a 3rd person who is not the subject (using the Distal).

Verbs

The verb is similar in structure to the ON verb. The 4th conjugation of weak verbs has disappeared entirely, merging with the 2nd, and several strong conjugations have collapsed together.

Conjugation Table

Mostly-pure ON table. Thematic Vowels have been normalized. No other changes.

General Pattern

Weak

Strong

1st

2nd

3rd

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

To be

INDIC.

Pres.

Sing.

1.

-a

-i

-∅

-∅

-∅

-η̾-∅

-η↖-∅

-∅

-η̆←-∅

em

2.

-ar

-ir

-r

-r

-s

-η̾-r

-η↖-r

-r

-η←-r

ert

3.

er

Plur.

1.

-um

-um

-jum

-um

-um

-um

-ω↖↑-um

-um

-ή-ū

erum

2.

-ið

-ið

eruð

3.

-a

-a

-ja

-a

eru

Pret.

Sing.

1.

-aða

-da

-að

-η↘↘-∅

-η↓j-∅

-υ̽-∅

-ή↗-∅

-η↘-∅

-η↖-∅

ƿar

2.

-aðir

-dir

-ðir

-η↘↘-t

-η↓j-t

-υ̽-t

-ή↗-t

-η↘-t

-η↖-t

ƿart

3.

-aði

-di

-ði

-η↘↘-∅

-η↓j-∅

-υ̽-∅

-ή↗-∅

-η↘-∅

-η↖-∅

var

Plur.

1.

-uðum

-dum

-ðum

-η↗↗-um

-um

-η̾→-um

-ω↑↑-um

-ή↘↘-ū

-η↖↑-um

ƿárū

2.

-uðuð

-duð

-ðuð

-η↗↗-uð

-uð

-η̾→-uð

-ω↑↑-uð

-ή↘↘-uð

-η↖↑-uð

ƿáruð

3.

-uðu

-du

-ðu

-η↗↗-u

-u

-η̾→-u

-ω↑↑-u

-ή↘↘-u

-η↖↑-u

ƿáru

IMPERAT.

-a

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

ƿer

SUBJ.

Pres.

Sing.

1.

-a

-a

sjá

2.

-ir

-ir

sér

3.

-i

-i

sé

Plur.

1.

-im

-im

sém

2.

-ið

-ið

séð

3.

-i

-i

sé

Pret.

Sing.

1.

2.

3.

Plur.

1.

2.

3.

Examples

Weak

Strong

1st

2nd

3rd

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

affla

dfelesj

3rd

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

acquire

dwell

3rd

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

INDIC.

Pres.

Sing.

1.

affla

dfelesí

-∅

-∅

-∅

-η̾-∅

-η↖-∅

-∅

-η̆←-∅

2.

afflar

dfelesir

-r

-r

-s

-η̾-r

-η↖-r

-r

-η←-r

3.

Plur.

1.

afflum

dfelesjum

-jum

-um

-um

-um

-ω↖↑-um

-um

-ή-um

2.

afflið

dfelesið

-ið

-ið

3.

affla

dfelesja

-ja

-a

Pret.

Sing.

1.

afflaða

dfeledja

-að

-η↘↘-∅

-η↓j-∅

-υ̽-∅

-ή↗-∅

-η↘-∅

-η↖-∅

2.

afflaðir

dfelesdír

-ðir

-η↘↘-t

-η↓j-t

-υ̽-t

-ή↗-t

-η↘-t

-η↖-t

3.

afflaði

dfelesdí

-ði

-η↘↘-∅

-η↓j-∅

-υ̽-∅

-ή↗-∅

-η↘-∅

-η↖-∅

Plur.

1.

affluðum

dfeledjum

-ðum

-η↗↗-um

-um

-η̾→-um

-ω↑↑-um

-ή↘↘-um

-η↖↑-um

2.

affluðuð

dfeledjuð

-ðuð

-η↗↗-uð

-uð

-η̾→-uð

-ω↑↑-uð

-ή↘↘-uð

-η↖↑-uð

3.

affluðu

dfeledju

-ðu

-η↗↗-u

-u

-η̾→-u

-ω↑↑-u

-ή↘↘-u

-η↖↑-u

IMPERAT.

affla

dfelesj

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

-∅

SUBJ.

Pres.

Sing.

1.

affla

dfelesja

-a

-a

2.

afflir

dfelesír

-ir

-ir

3.

affli

dfelesí

-i

-i

Plur.

1.

afflim

dfelesím

-im

-im

2.

afflið

dfelesíð

-ið

-ið

3.

affli

dfelesí

-i

-i

Pret.

Sing.

1.

2.

3.

Plur.

1.

2.

3.

Person

1st, 2nd, 3rd Common, 3rd Neuter

Voice

Active Voice

Simple bare verb.

Passive Voice

The use of the Passive is virtually obligatory when the agent of the verb is of lower percieved animacy than the undergoer.

Nonpast Tense

Aorist/Present Construction

Simple bare verb.

Future Construction

Auxilliary verbs or adverbs of intention or likelyhood are used.

Past Tense

Ablaut.

Moods

Indicative, Interrogative (for yes/no questions on the truth value of the predicate), Subjunctive (includes Conditional and Irrealis), Imperative (includes Hortative and Jussive).

Aspects

Imperfect, Perfect.

Attitudinal and Evidential modifiers

Equiv. doch, schon, mal, eben, ja, etc.

Other Languages

Other languages in this AU presume the gradual creation and growth of European colonies in North & Central America starting around 1000CE instead of the rapid colonization of Central America starting around 1500CE and of North America starting around 1600CE.

Finla was the first major consolidation of power, followed by "Nova Scotia" (provisional name), consisting mostly of Christian Celtic and Anglo-Saxon missionaries from England and France who established their major centers on the southwest coast of Greenland and to the south of Finla between 1100CE and 1250CE. Their Hibernic language is a Celtic koine of Old Gaelic, Old Welsh, Old Breton and Old Cornish with adstrates from Old English and Old French and a significant superstrate from Church Latin.