Northeadish/Correlatives

Northeadish Druðþþȳðesc
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European Germanic South Germanic
Basic word order:	SVO or SOV
Morphological type:	fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	accusative
Created by:
BenJamin P. Johnson	2000
Northeadish Resources:
Phonemic Inventory Spelling & Orthography Inflection Correlatives Family Units & Organization Immediate Family: Frīnðʀ Spouses & In-laws: Brūðþgumʀ & Svegrӿʀ Extended Family: Ūtfrīnðʀ Measurement of Time Abbreviations & Contractions

The Northeadish system of correlatives is similar to those in most other Germanic languages, though by analogy, it has become much more extensive than the others. The correlatives based on H, Þ, and Ƕ are easily recognizible in Germanic, being descended fairly directly from Indo-European K, T, and Kʷ, indicating a proximal, a medial, and an interrogative form. İ is also somewhat recognizable, though this distal form is not as widespread in Germanic languages as the others. N for negative is also fairly common, though normally not in these particular forms. Finally, the somewhat more elusive Q form for the relative is likely derived from the fortition of Ƕ in relative cluases.

	H	Þ	İ	Ƕ	Q	N
	proximal	medial	distal	interrogative	relative	negative
Place	har here	þar there	iar yonder	ƕar where	qar where	nar nowhere
Goal	haðra hither	þaðra thither	iaðra yonder	ƕaðra whither	qaðra whither	naðra to nowhere
Source	harɴ hence	þarɴ thence	iarɴ from yonder	ƕarɴ whence	qarɴ whence	narɴ from nowhere
Time	han now	þan then	ian then (a long time)	ƕan when	qan when	nan never
Thing	hat this	þat that	iat yon	ƕat what	qat what	nat nothing
Reason	hī herefore	þī therefore	iī yonderfore	ƕī why	qī why	nī for no reason
Manner	hū like this	þū -	iū some other way	ƕū how	qū how	nū no way
Abstraction	het it	þet that	iet yet	ƕet -	qet -	net not

• þū has the meaning of the second person singular pronoun and is not used in this manner.
• There are also a collection of personal pronouns which do not strictly adhere to this system, but make up the basis of "who" in the various cases.