Nother/Trentish

Trentish (Nyalohn-sha)
Pronounced:	[ɲɑlonʃɑ]
Timeline and Universe:	Nother
Species:	Trents
Spoken:	Pacific Northwest 19th century—
Total speakers:	[No data]
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Genealogy:	Coalescence languages  Trentish
Typology
Morphological type:	Polysynthetic
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Accusative
Basic word order:	OV
Credits
Creator:	Muke Tever | ✎
Created:	2001

A priori conlang for a race of entlike creatures (trents, Trentish: qlumeu) in Nother.

History

Not recorded before 1800s.

Geographic distribution

North America; largest populations in Pacific Northwest.

Sounds

Main article: Trentish Phonology

Writing system

Trentish is written in a variant of the Latin alphabet.

A

B

D

Dʼ

E

G

I

K

L

Λ̅

M

N

NG

NY

O

Ö

P

Q

R

S

T

Tʼ

U

Ü

W

X

Y

a

b

d

dʼ

e

g

i

k

l

ƛ

m

n

ng

ny

o

ö

p

q

r

s

t

tʼ

u

ü

w

x

y

The digraphs ng and ny are sometimes written with single characters, and are considered individual "letters" for the purposes of sorting. Other digraphs such as tʼh and sh are not counted as letters.

The capital of letter ƛ is supposed to be CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH OVERLINE.

Grammar

Main article: Trentish Morphology

Pronouns

Trentish third-person pronouns inflect for spatial relationships. Not only is nearness to the speaker or hearer marked, but also the referent's height or elevation relative to the speaker. A higher or lower elevation is also used metaphorically to represent degrees of respect; one speaks to an elder or superior as one would to one "above", or to a child or inferior as one would to one "below".

First person	nyü /ɲy/
Second person	lusyi /lusji/
Third person	Above		Equal		Below
Near speaker	qohnohgoh	/ʔonoko/	öt	/øtʼ/	gr	/kʌ/
Near hearer	kohtwülr	/kʼotʷylʌ/	pnyr	/pʼɲʌ/	lr	/lʌ/
Distant	xan	/xɑn/	xini	/xini/	xr	/xʌ/
Reflexive	xa /xɑ/

Problems

• Where does the /pʼɲ/ in pnyr come from? Is that a normal Trentish initial consonant cluster? Does it get pronounced that way? (I think it would turn to nnyr [ɲɲʌ] in a connected word.)

Vocabulary

Main article: Trentish Lexicon

Sample texts

• Trentish leg of the 7th CONLANG Translation Relay (PDF, 49K)

  The text is that which is was in the official relay, but the interlinear and the English translation are new, the originals being lost (at least until the full 7th Relay gets put online). The Trentish text has been respelled to match current orthography, but not otherwise corrected.

External links

• Old website