Middle High Jermench (MGR)
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Middle High Jermench Jërmenech | |
Spoken in: | Holy Roman Empire |
Conworld: | Mundus Germaniae Romanae |
Total speakers: | unknown |
Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
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Basic word order: | SVO |
Morphological type: | inflecting |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
Writing system: | |
Created by: | |
P Collier, BP Jonsson | 2006+ |
Introduction
Modern Descendants
Phonology
Consonants
Consonants | |||||||||||||||||||
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Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
Plosive | p b | t d | k g | ||||||||||||||||
Affricate | p͡f | t͡s | |||||||||||||||||
Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ | x | h | ||||||||||||||
Approximant | w | j | |||||||||||||||||
Trill | r | ||||||||||||||||||
Lateral | l |
Vowels
Vowels | ||||||||||||
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Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||||
High | iː yː | uː | ||||||||||
Near-high | ɪ y | ʊ | ||||||||||
High-mid | e øː | oː | ||||||||||
Mid | ə | |||||||||||
Low-mid | ɛ ø | ɔ ɔː | ||||||||||
Low | æ æː | a aː |
Phonological History
Morphology
Nouns
1st Declension
During the Middle High Jermench period, the reduction of unstressed vowels led to a reanalysis of the final /ə/, which was ultimately present in all forms, as being part of the noun stem.
Group I
Feminine.
A
Standard paradigm
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B
Nouns with I-mutation.
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C Nouns with I-mutation and loss/
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Group II
Feminine.
A
Standard paradigm
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B
Nouns with loss/assimilation of final -s
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C Nouns with primary I-mutation.
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D Nouns with primary I-mutation
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2nd Declension
3rd Declension
Pronouns
Pronouns | ||||||||
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Singular | Plural | |||||||
masculine | feminine | reflexive | impersonal | masculine | feminine | reflexive | ||
1st person | Nominative | ju | ― | ― | nus | ― | ||
Accusative | mei | ― | nus | |||||
Genitive | mi | ― | ― | noster | ― | |||
Dative | möue | ― | ― | nous | ― | |||
2nd person | Nominative | zu | ― | ― | wus | ― | ||
Accusative | zei | ― | wus | |||||
Genitive | twi | ― | ― | wëster | ― | |||
Dative | zöue | ― | ― | wous | ― | |||
3rd person | Nominative | el | elle | ― | hom | illî | ellas | ― |
Accusative | sei | hom | sei | |||||
Genitive | schwi | ― | homs | schwi | ― | |||
Dative | söue | ― | hœme | sis | ― | |||
Interrogative & relative |
Nominative | ki | ― | ― | ki | ― | ||
Accusative | kie | ― | ― | kus | quas | |||
Genitive | köus | quæs | ― | ― | kour | quar | ― | |
Dative | ki | quæ | ― | ― | kius | ― |
Verbs
Indicative Mood
1st Conjugation
2nd Conjugation
Subjunctive Mood
1st Conjugation
2nd Conjugation
Imperative Mood
Infinitive and Past Participles
Auxilliary Verbs
Ëstzer (to be)
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Ëstzer was used in conjunction with a passive participle to create the passive voice.
Haber (to have)
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Wiener (to come)
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Articles
Definite Article
Definite Article | |||
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Masculine | Feminine | ||
Nom. sing. | lie | li | |
Acc. sing. | lou | lus | |
Gen. sing. | löus | lour | |
Dat. sing. | löu | lis | |
Nom. plur. | la | las | |
Acc. plur. | la | las | |
Gen. plur. | læs | lour | |
Dat. plur. | læ | lis |
Indefinite Article
Indefinite Article | |||
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Masculine | Feminine | ||
Nom. sing. | uns | une | |
Acc. sing. | un | une | |
Gen. sing. | unöus | unæs | |
Dat. sing. | unöu | unæ |