Avantimannish (The World)
| Auntimoanian Avantimanisc Spreihhô | |
| Spoken in: | Empire of Auntimoanye |
| Timeline/Universe: | The World |
| Total speakers: | c. 8 million |
| Genealogical classification: | Thietish, East Aryan, Puntic |
| Basic word order: | SVO |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Created by: | |
| Padraic Brown | late 1980s, revisited in 2010s |
Avantimannish is a Germanic language spoken in the Empire of Auntimoanye in the Eastlands of the World. Old Thietish, the native name for the family of Germanic languages, arrived in the Eastlands during the Great Migration of the third and fourth centuries of the present era. Even at that time there were the beginnings of the three great families of Thietish: the western, or Oswaldmannish; the northern, or Markomannish; the eastern, or Avantimannish.
Texts
One of Aesop's fables, here rendered into Avantimannish by the 19th century scrivner, Willard Caskton:
Waron on te than daye s’ein ongeynes th’anther strîdende se north wyndaz he that hâtt Bouream ande se sunnô ho that hâtt Souwelô; ande this mun saijet em eij se stranger ande that mun saijet naye for that em eij se stranger. Ande mun farfarendez cwame under te walcknen. Theij dedettun asgrete s’ein that maye te undermacknen than farfarende te doffen his clôcke, that mun es se stranger.
Than mahhtylihh Bouream blablôuwe but se farfarendez dedt on his hode ande he om-him-ynwande under his clôcke; and he framwardes-him-suwarfe ongeynes that Bouream. Then he stoppet te blâwen on thang the farfarendez him underlayet. Than warmlihh Souwelô scâne ande se farfarendez besôhhet him that eiktrewnons scadu, dedt off his hode ande nethes-hit-cast adouwn his clôcke ande he yngane te nappen. Than ho stoppet te warmlihh scînen on thang ho thon farfarende underlayet.
Swo this Bouream môte underscrîven that Souwelô es se stranger; ande allswo that geontillness out-doet vehouwlevent.
A sample of the writing:
On fornes was qenets that hehôte Ysenmênô that thon Landoveres deuz he qarve... (Once there was a knight hight Eisenmain, and he it was the beast of Landover slew...)
Grammar
