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
Two fables of Hasopas, here rendered into Avantimannish by the 19th century scrivner, Willard Caskton:
Se Fohhs ande se Hravenaz
Waron on te than daye this fohhs that hehôte Rahhnhard ande this hravenaz that hehôte Teselam ande they biden on thon lyttel rihhdôme ye-clepet Gattenburgon. Nuw, Teselam was canful ande te menô weyes wisful; ande with happe, he under-him-flahhe thona huses on Ourohhsbrycge ande ye-him-fande summe qeyson ande he up-hit-name on hys blaowe bylle ande he him settellet on yaan treowe.
Ande ther on he ongan te conuerset under himselfe yn thenwise: la, min gôden ravendales qeyson!, hwa yeumisse tha be, swo delyciouso! Sôthelihh swo, ihh nafer befornes taxet suwyhh gôdnesse!
Ande then cwame Rahhnhardo se fohhs ande he behaset alle se hravenes word; ande he uplôcket ande ther thon hravene sahhwe; ande he dezythret te begobben thon qeyson. Swo he cleret his throwte ande swotelihh cgayoelet te thon Teselo on thenwise: la, min qyire Teselam! – tha that be se allernobellen of alle hravenô! Ihh wel qane huw tuwellemant tha senges, ande ey lang synes wônete wollet te thih hese, swoten singund!
Swo bemouwt was he of se allercanwisen fohhe that he ongan te senge: and huw he dydet te cawen ande huw he dydet te crawen! Suwyhh clammere ande suwyhh blowhehauwe he maket that nauhht alles colltet be ye-hesen. But la! Ther nethes-hit-fefele that gobe of qeyson ande beforon that Teselam hit kennet, se cuwycken Rahhnhard up-hit-name, nethes-hit-gobbet ande dydet on waye him rene.
Ande thaan scrâye se hravenaz, wepend ande gryend ande he seyet: “wâ! waye ande nevermares! Never mar on warthes wellem ihh swo comfeye with mun flaterundum that swo ye-franget ande breket min troste!” For swo sayet they wisfulle: livet se flaterund meth penninge of mon that wellet him behasen.
Bouream ande Souwelô
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
