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[comments] th1thylean Thylean is a hypothetical/artistic language constructed by Eli Henson (DarcX), aiming to create sort of a Romantic Norse language (or perhaps a Nordic Romance language? Who knows). The language name comes from the word from Latin naming the northern-most region of the west hemisphere -- a huge portion of which is Scandinavia. This language is being constructed with not too much realism in mind; that is, Henson isn't endorsing this language as the product of some sort of altered history. There's a bit of a rhyme and reason to the way Thylean is being built.
The grammar, for instance, is taking the largest influence from Icelandic. Word order and which types of inflections govern parts of speeches' morphology are very Nordic. The inflections themselves, however, vary. As of now, verb conjugation takes extreme influence from Icelandic, whereas noun and adjective declension is a sort of simplified borrowing of Latin's system. We do see, however, the element of strongness/weakness in both the verbs and the nouns!
The lexicon will take most influence from Latin. Select words will remain as Nordic origin -- some words may possibly have a Latin and Nordic form. In this case, preference would be dialectal. Because the lexicon is quite Romantic, the phonotactics of Thylean are very similar. Consonant clusters are discouraged, and stress lies exclusively in the penultimate position of multisyllabic words. On the contrary, the vowel system takes much Norse inspiration! Nasal vowels have been lost, but we still see umlaut in /a/, /o/, and /u/, and vowel length remains phonemic.
Overall, this language hopes to achieve a serene balance between these two Indo-European language families. It seems very much like a Romantic language in its written form, but its Norse flavor comes out in the spoken language. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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