Classical Laefêvëši

NOTE: This is an obsolete form of the conlang. It has been renamed to Classical Laefêvëši to distinguish it from the new version, which is Ascended or Celestial Laefêvëši.

Laefeveshi Laefêvëši or ᛚᚨᛖᚠᛌᚬᚴᛇᛋᛁ or ꊰꅐꇴꉻꍒꉩꌂꀜꈤ
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	2003-2011

Laefêvëši (pronounced as /lae'fɛːvəʃi/) (natively also spelled as ᛚᚨᛖᚠᛌᚬᚴᛇᛋᛁ and ꊰꅐꇴꉻꍒꉩꌂꀜꈤ), Anglicized as 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 12 languages.

Vlamarian languages:

• Central:
  • Laefêvëši
• North-West:
  • North:
    • Sinânëši
    • Fērjalêši
    • Alámëši
  • West:
    • Lêmjëši
    • Lasmáši
• East:
  • Old East:
    • Jalassáši
  • New East:
    • Mōjráši
    • Lošêirëši
• South:
  • Old South:
    • Saljênši
  • New South:
    • Majêllëši
    • Lajtánši

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	ə:
Open-mid	ɛ	ɛ:	œ	œ:							ʌ	ʌ:	ɔ	ɔ:
Open							a	a:

Laefêvëši consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	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	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:

Writing system

Laefeveshi uses three types of writing systems, the traditional runic alphabet, alternative Latin writing (Latitheo) and the Lallentva script.

Latitheo

The romanization of the Laefeveshi language is called Látiþeo or latitheo in English.

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	y	ý							ü	ű	u	ú
Near-close					ī	î			ū	û
Close-mid	e	é	ø	ǿ									o	ó
Mid							ë	ä
Open-mid	ē	ê	ö	ő							ā	â	ō	ô
Open							a	á, ă

Laefêvëši consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	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	pħ			tħ				kħ
Fricative	Plain		f v	þ ð	s z	š ž	ś ź		h x
	Geminate		ff vv	þþ ðð	ss zz
Affricate	Plain				c ʒ	č ǯ	ć ȝ
	Aspirated				cħ	čħ	ćħ
Approximant					ŗ			j	ƿ/w
Trill					rr
Flap or tap					r
Lateral approximant	Plain				l			lj
	Geminate				ll

Alternatives:

• the letter <ʒ> can be replaced by <dz>
• the letter <ǯ> can be replaced by <dž>
• the letter <ȝ> can be replaced by <dź>
• the letter <ƿ> can be replaced by <w>

Letters:

Aa, Áá, Āā, Ââ, Ăă, Bb, Cc, Ʒʒ, Ćć, Ȝȝ, Čč, Ǯǯ, Dd, Ee, Éé, Ēē, Êê, Ëë, Ää, Ff, Gg, Xx, Hh, Ħħ, Ii, Íí, Īī, Îî, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ŋŋ, Oo, Óó, Ōō, Ôô, Öö, Őő, Øø, Ǿǿ, Pp, Rr, Ŗŗ, Ss Þþ, Śś, Šš, Tt, Uu, Úú, Ūū, Ûû, Üü, Űű, Vv, Ww, Ƿƿ, Yy, Ýý, Zz, Ðð, Źź, Žž

Basic Latitheo

The so-called "basic Latitheo" was devised to allow writing Laefêvëši with any possible font that uses the basic Latin letters.

Laefevhvexhsqi 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	igh	y	zgh							uxh	uqh	u	ugh
Near-close					ibh	ivh			ubh	uvh
Close-mid	e	egh	onh	omh									o	ogh
Mid							exh	axh
Open-mid	ebh	evh	oxh	oqh							abh	avh	obh	ovh
Open							a	agh, agbh

Double vowels:

• āā -> abbh
• ēē -> ebbh
• īī -> ibbh
• ōō -> obbh
• ūū -> ubbh
• ëë -> exxh
• öö -> oxxh
• üü -> uxxh

Laefevhvexhsqi consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Alveopalatal	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	Plain	m			n			nj	nq
	Gemiante	mm			nn
Plosive	Plain	p b			t d				k ɡ
	Geminate	pp bb			tt dd				kk ɡg
	Aspirated	ph			th				kh
Fricative	Plain		f v	tq dq	s z	sq zq	sjq zjq		hq x
	Geminate		ff vv	ttq ddq	ss zz
Affricate	Plain				c dz	cq dzq	cjq dzjq
	Aspirated				ch	cqh	cjqh
Approximant					rq			j	w
Trill					rr
Flap or tap					r
Lateral approximant	Plain				l			lj
	Geminate				ll

Runic alphabet

Main article: Laefêvëši runic alphabet

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

ᛁ, ᚣ, ᚥ, ᚢ, ᛄ, ᚤ, ᛖ, ᛡ, ᛟ, ᛇ, ᚬ, ᚯ, ᛮ, ᛅ, ᚨ, ᚮ, ᛗ, ᚾ, ᛜ, ᛝ, ᛈ ,ᛒ, ᛏ, ᛞ, ᚸ, ᚷ, ᚠ, ᚴ, ᚦ, ᛨ, ᛊ, ᛉ, ᛋ, ᛣ, ᛠ, ᛯ, ᚻ, ᛤ, ᚳ, ᛩ, ᛥ, ᛪ, ᛕ, ᛰ, ᚿ, ᛃ ᚹ, ᛢ, ᚱ, ᛚ, ᚭ;
ᚺ, ᛌ,ᚲ

Lallêntva

Main article: Lallêntva script

ꈤ, ꈣ, ꉘ, ꉗ, ꇤ, ꇣ, ꏲ, ꏱ,ꏢ, ꏡ, ꂷ, ꂶ, ꇴ. ꇳ. ꀧ. ꀦ, ꎍ, ꎌ, ꌂ, ꌁ, ꍓ, ꍒ, ꁘ, ꁗ, ꇁ, ꇀ, ꅂ, ꅁ, ꅐ, ꅏ, ꅔ, ꏾ,ꌩ, ꂓ, ꑣ, ꏽ, ꌨ, ꋖ, ꄻ, ꃼ, ꑀ, ꎤ, ꋣ, ꋕ, ꄺ,ꃻ, ꐿ, ꎣ, ꋢ, ꈴ, ꏪ, ꑓ, ꉻ, ꉩ, ꆩ, ꋂ, ꑭ, ꒆ, ꀜ, ꅵ, ꄣ, ꇠ, ꈠ, ꆣ, ꉺ, ꉨ, ꆨ, ꋁ, ꑬ, ꒅ, ꌋ, ꍧ, ꐚ, ꐆ, ꑿ, ꑗ, ꎰ, ꏋ, ꃬ, ꀪ, ꍫ, ꀆ, ꉁ, ꉂ, ꊰ, ꅪ, ꊯ

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.

Adjectives

Main article: Laefêvëši adjectives

Pronouns

Main article: Laefêvëši pronouns

Numerals

Main article: Laefêvëši numerals

Verbs

Main article: Laefêvëši verbs

Vocabulary

Main article: Laefêvëši dictionary

YouTube

You Raise Me Up by Celtic Woman
The Magic of the Wizard's Dream by Rhapsody of Fire
Memory of Love
I Have a Dream by ABBA (old version of Laefêvëši)