Veslovian
| Veslovian túdska tyhu | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | /ˈtuːtska ˈtɪɦu/ |
| Species: | Human |
| Spoken: | Veslovia (official) |
| Total speakers: | 15 million, unknown for individual dialects |
| Writing system: | Latin |
| Genealogy: | Indo-European languages
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| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Fusional |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-accusative |
| Basic word order: | SVO |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Danisht Dzakwan DanishtD |
| Created: | November 2021 |
Veslovian (túdska tyhu) is an Germanic altlang spoken in the fictional country Veslovia (Túdska). It consists of four un- (or partially) intelligible dialects, namely northern, central, western, and southern dialects. Between the four dialects, the first (also known as Molbrian) is chosen as the standard dialect for the language.
Classification
Although similar with Slavic languages, Veslovian is actually a South Germanic language, of which more conservative phonologically than Gothic language. Conservative (phonological features include lack of i-mutation even in the case of -e- (traditional Proto-Germanic 1SG *sehwō : 2SG *sihwizi ≠ Molbrian sechva : sechvez "I see, you (sg.) see"), retention of -z- (English deer ≠ Molbrian duzu), *-ō- > -a- and final -ą (English salve ≠ Molbrian slabanu ≠ Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽 (salbōn)).
Innovative features include Ruki sound law influenced by Balto-Slavic when Veslovian still an integral part of Proto-Germanic, palatalizations, developments of yers *-ь- and *-ъ-, and Slavic liquid metathesis. In Veslovian, there are 4 largely-unintelligible dialects resulted by parralel regular changes:
- Northern dialect, spoken in Molbry (cf. Vienna), parallel to Czech.
- Central dialect, spoken in Lubado (Lubado, cf. Ljubljana), parallel to Slovene.
- Western dialect, spoken in Veťny (Vîn, cf. Udine), parallel to Friulian.
- Southern dialect, spoken in Zádro (Zadro, cf. Zadar), parallel to Chakavian, although the related language Serbian existed as neighbors.
This is some of the examples of the 4 dialects:
| English | Veslovian dialects | Proto-South Germanic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern | Central | Western | Southern | ||
| man | mona | mona | muene | mona | *mona |
| wife | vibu | vibu | vîf | vibu | *vibǫ |
| son | sen | san | son | son | *sъnъ |
Phonology
- See Phonology
Grammar
Nouns and adjectives
- See Nominals
Veslovian preserve grammatical case inflection for nouns and adjectives, but also made new complexities like animacy and also the introduction of locative cases from Proto-Slavic. The western dialect, however, only has inflection in numbers but not cases, by the influence of neighbouring Romance languages.
Verbs
- See Verbs
Unlike most all Germanic languages, the synthetic past tense died out and becoming archaic in favour of analytic forms by past participles with present forms of vezon: díldo jím, díldo jez, díldo jesť, ..., from dělinu "to divide". Perfective forms are derived regularly from the prefix ho-/hů-.
