Classical Laefêvëši

Laefeveshi Laefêvëši ᛚᚨᛖᚠᛌᚬᚴᛇᛋᛁ
Spoken in:	Olilóinien (planet)
Conworld:
Total speakers:
Genealogical classification:	Vlamarian Old Laefêvëši Middle Laefêvëši Laefeveshi
Basic word order:	SVO (neutral), free
Morphological type:	agglutinating, inflecting, polysynthetic
Morphosyntactic alignment:	nominative-accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Andrej Šuc	2003-2010

Laefêvëši ᛚᚨᛖᚠᛌᚬᚴᛇᛋᛁ or Laefeveshi is an a priori conlang created by Andrej Šuc. The beginnings of the conlang date back to the year 2003 and the conlang has been developing ever since. The language was inspired by Slovene and several other languages but it is essentially an a priori conlang. It has a rich phonology and it's highly agglutinative with inflecting and polysynthetic features. It uses extended Latin script but alternatively also adopted runic alphabet.

The language is part of a larger language family which consists of total 13 languages. Laefêvëši is natively spoken by Elves on Olilóinien ᛅᛚᛁᛚᛌᛅᛁᚾᛁᛖᚾ.

Family

Main article: Vlamarian language family

Laefêvëši is part of a larger language family called Vlamarian language family which consists of 13 languages.

Phonology

Main article: Phonological changes of Laefêvëši

Laefêvëši vowels

	Front				Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
	Unrounded		Rounded								Unrounded		Rounded
	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long
Close	i	i:	y	y:							ɯ	ɯ:	u	u:
Near-close					ɪ	ɪ:			ʊ	ʊ:
Close-mid	e	e:	ø	ø:									o	o:
Mid							ə
Open-mid	ɛ	ɛ:	œ	œ:							ʌ	ʌ:	ɔ	ɔ:
Open							a	a:

Laefêvëšii consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Alveopalatal	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	Plain	m			n				ɲ	ŋ
	Gemiante	m:			n:
Plosive	Plain	p b			t d					k ɡ
	Geminate	p: b:			t: d:					k: ɡ:
	Aspirated	pʰ			tʰ					kʰ
Fricative	Plain		f v	θ ð	s z	ʃ* ʒ*	ʂ* ʐ*	ɕ ʑ		x ɣ
	Geminate		f: v:	θ: ð:	s: z:
Affricate	Plain				ʦ ʣ	ʧ ʤ		ʨ ʥ
	Aspirated				ʦʰ	ʧʰ		ʨʰ
Approximant					ɹ				j	w
Trill					r
Flap or tap					ɾ
Lateral approximant	Plain				l				ʎ
	Geminate				l:

Notes:

• asterisk (*): the two post-alveolar fricatives /ʃ ʒ/ are interchangeable with the retroflex fricatives /ʂ ʐ/.

Writing system

Laefêvëši uses two types of writing systems, the traditional runic alphabet and alternative Latin writing. There have been many attempts to write Laefêvëši with Latin letters but because of its rich phonology it has proven to be very difficult to find an appropriate romanization.

Latitheo

The romanization of the Laefêvëši language is called Látiþeo or latitheo in English. The current official system uses a large number of letters, many with diacritics.

Laefêvëši vowels

	Front				Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
	Unrounded		Rounded								Unrounded		Rounded
	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long
Close	i, í	í	y, ý	ý							ü, ű	ű	u, ú	ú
Near-close					ī, î	î			ū, û	û
Close-mid	e, é	é	ø, ǿ	ǿ									o, ó	ó
Mid							ë, ä
Open-mid	ē, ê	ê	ö, ő	ő							ā, â	â	ō, ô	ô
Open							a, á	á, ă

Laefêvëši consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Alveopalatal	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	Plain	m			n				nj	ŋ
	Gemiante	mm			nn
Plosive	Plain	p b			t d					k ɡ
	Geminate	pp bb			tt dd					kk ɡg
	Aspirated	pq			tq					kq
Fricative	Plain		f v	þ ð	s z	š ž	ṡ/ṣ ż/ẓ	ś ź		h x
	Geminate		ff vv	þþ ðð	ss zz
Affricate	Plain				c dz	č dž		ć dź
	Aspirated				cq	čq		ćq
Approximant					ŗ				j	w
Trill					rr
Flap or tap					r
Lateral approximant	Plain				l				lj
	Geminate				ll

Runic alphabet

Laefêvëši uses an adaptation of the runic alphabet along with the Latin script.

Laefêvëši vowels

	Front				Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
	Unrounded		Rounded								Unrounded		Rounded
	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long	Short	Long
Close	ᛁ, ᛌᛁ	ᛌᛁ	ᚣ, ᛌᚣ	ᛌᚣ							ᚥ, ᛌᚥ	ᛌᚥ	ᚢ, ᛌᚢ	ᛌᚢ
Near-close					ᛄ, ᛌᛄ	ᛌᛄ			ᚤ, ᛌᚤ	ᛌᚤ
Close-mid	ᛖ, ᛌᛖ	ᛌᛖ	ᛡ, ᛌᛡ	ᛌᛡ									ᛟ, ᛌᛟ	ᛌᛟ
Mid							ᛇ, ᛌᛇ
Open-mid	ᚬ, ᛌᚬ	ᛌᚬ	ᚯ, ᛌᚯ	ᛌᚯ							ᛮ, ᛌᛮ	ᛌᛮ	ᛅ, ᛌᛅ	ᛌᛅ
Open							ᚨ, ᛌᚨ	ᛌᚨ, ᚮ

Laefêvëši consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Alveopalatal	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	Plain	ᛗ			ᚾ				ᛜ	ᛝ
	Gemiante	ᚲᛗ			ᚲᚾ
Plosive	Plain	ᛈ ᛒ			ᛏ ᛞ					ᚸ ᚷ
	Geminate	ᚲᛈ ᚲᛒ			ᚲᛏ ᚲᛞ					ᚲᚸ ᚲᚷ
	Aspirated	ᛈᚺ			ᛏᚺ					ᚸᚺ
Fricative	Plain		ᚠ ᚴ	ᚦ ᛨ	ᛊ ᛉ	ᛋ ᛣ	ṡ/ṣ ż/ẓ*	ᛠ ᛯ		ᚻ ᛤ
	Geminate		ᚲᚠ ᚲᚴ	ᚲᚦ ᚲᛨ	ᚲᛊ ᚲᛉ
Affricate	Plain				ᚳ ᛩ	ᛥ ᛪ		ᛕ ᛰ
	Aspirated				ᚳᚺ	ᛥᚺ		ᛕᚺ
Approximant					ᚿ				ᛃ	ᚹ
Trill					ᛢ
Flap or tap					ᚱ
Lateral approximant	Plain				ᛚ				ᚭ
	Geminate				ᚲᛚ

Grammar

Nouns

Main article: Laefêvëši nouns

Nouns in Laefêvëši are marked for both case and number. There are 17 cases divided into three groups and 3 numbers (singular, dual and plural). Nouns are also divided into two genders: masculine and feminine. Articles are not used any more, however, under some conditions they can be used but they do not mark definiteness in usual sense.

Pronouns

Main article: Laefêvëši pronouns

Numerals

Main article: Laefêvëši numerals

Verbs

Main article: Laefêvëši verbs