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Gethavage

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Gethavage is a work in progress - a language I have been developing mainly in my head. I shall unveil it gradually such as it now - and build from there. The approach will be practical rather than technical. Gethavage just means "the way we speak":

get - speak ha - [pl] va - [first person] 'ge - [suffix of manner]

g before e, é or i is pronounced as gy (Hu) but a little softer (i.e. [d]y. e is generally pron yɘ - although swallowed when final.

Stress is flexible in Gethavage and is usually marked by an acute. However, this is not possible with e as é is in separate use. Shall resolve that. So we could say pron: [d]yɘt'hava[d]y[ɘ].

Not every word will require so much explanation from here on!

Other language names are constructed slightly differently - although consistently. Thus ánkoget (English) and

rántiget   tískiget   pánget   dáliget  rήsiget  lúsoget  dániget  cíget  níviget  héliget  tήruget  rápoget  soálget

most of which should be obvious with a little thought.

Note rήsiget. Gethavage (hereinafter abbreviated to Gt) has an additional vowel ή indicating ɘ.