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Menu 1. Periodization 2. Romance and Greco-Latin 3. Slavic 4. Germanic 5. Inherited word

The vocabulary of  Mattinese was influenced by many other language groups, mostly by Norman French, Latin, Slavic languages and Germanic languages. It is estimated that only around 700-1,000 words are inherited.

Although the original vocabulary of  Mattinese was the from the Keyot branch of Garric language(other Keyot languages include  Modern Standard Sutti and its ancestor  Old Sutti), it has incorporated a large number of borrowings from Romance(mainly Norman French) and Greco-Latin sources of influence, and, to a lesser extent, Slavic and Germanic ones, due to continual contacts with Germanic, Slavic and Romance speakers. As a result, more than half of the vocabulary of Mattinese are from Norman French and Latin, around 13% of the vocabulary is from Slavic, 1% from Germanic, and less than 10% of the vocabulary is inherited; besides, there are few substrate words of Celtic origin and also substrate words of unknown origin.

Today, most function words are Gerric, so despite only making up about a third, they are the most used among Mattinese people when conversing. In this way, it is similar to English, which is a Germanic language that had large influence from Norman French and Latin (58% of English vocabulary). As a result of this, Romance language-speakers and English speakers may easily be able to comprehend conceptual ideas expressed in Mattinese, such as "Geographicalment, Europe noh a part itto supercontinent i Eurasia" (Geographically, Europe is part of the Supercontinent of Eurasia), while not understanding a single word of a functional sentence such as "To dan tou matto naid." (The man is in the house), "Nos tong tou matto nome yassom." (My hand is in warm water), etc.

[edit] [top]Periodization


Below is a list of the main sources of vocabulary in Mattinese and their relevant period of time:

- Proto-Germanic, Proto-Norse and (potentially) Gothic (~800 CE.)
- Proto-Slavic and Old Church Slavic (500 - 800 CE.)
- Old Norse (800 - 1000 CE.)
- Old French (1100 CE. - 14th century)
- Middle French (14th - 16th century)
- Slavic languages (1000 - 1500 CE.)
- Latin (as scolarly language) (900 CE. - present)
- Ancient Greek (as scolarly language alongside with Latin) (900 CE. - present)

The Mattinese language was first written during the time of Old Church Slavic. Some of the earliest attestions of  Mattinese were created by Vasily Adams Paxpa(IPA: /ˈvæsɪli: ˈæ.dəms ˈpækspə/). Vasily Paxpa was a bishop of the Orthodox Church. He was the first bishop of Mattinese people and was also the author of some earliest written records of  Mattinese.

[edit] [top]Romance and Greco-Latin

Words of Romance and Greco-Latin origin make up more than half of the Mattinese vocabulary. This vocabulary tends to deal with more complex concepts. They are mostly derived from Norman French and thus exhibit Norman French phonetic characteristics like the use of /w/ in place where Metropolitan French would use /g/.

Besides Norman French, words of Greco-Latin origin are also quite common in Mattinese, this is due to the fact that Latin and Ancient Greek were the classical language of most of the Christian world.

As Mattinese has undergone a vowel shift parallel to the Great Vowel Shift in English, many of the Romance and Greco-Latin origin words end up sounding identical or almost identical to their counterparts in English in modern times.

[edit] [top]Slavic

Besides Norman French, another major source of Mattinese vocabulary is Slavic, there are more than 1,000 words that are of Slavic origin in Mattinese. This vocabulary tends to belong to an old layer of borrowing, many vocabularies related to animal husbandry, metallurgy and hunting in Mattinese are of Slavic origin, some words related to transportation and carriage are also of Slavic origin; besides, some concepts related to religion and literacy are from Slavic, and according to some historical records, Mattinese people were first christianized by Eastern Orthodox Church from Slavic-speaking areas before they were converted to the Catholic Church by Norman French missionaries. The nature of the Slavic loanwords indicates that Mattinese people learnt most of the metallurgy and animal husbandry from Slavic peoples.

It is believed that the Slavic vocabulary in Mattinese is not from a single Slavic language, but from several Slavic languages.

[edit] [top]Germanic

There are also some 100-200 words that are of Germanic origin in Mattinese, not including Germanic words from Norman French. There are at least three layers of Germanic loanwords, one is from Old Norse, the second is from Germanic dialects older than Old Norse, and the third consists of some more recent borrowings from West Germanic languages. It is believed that some 200 words in Mattinese are borrowed directly from Old Norse dialects; but besides Old Norse, there are also some 100 words in Mattinese that might be from Proto-Germanic dialects.

Some Mattinese words of Old Norse origin have a connotation to warfare, navigation, architecture and the sea; while Mattinese words from Proto-Germanic dialects tend to reflect ideas of daily life. The Mattinese word for "horse" is of Old Norse origin, but due to the presence of wheel and chariots in Mattinese society before contacts wiht Vikings, it is unlikely that horse riding in Mattinese society were introduced by Vikings, thus the borrowing of the word for "horse" from Old Norse might be due to the fact that horse was associated with warfare; besides, the word for "horse" in Mattinese might initially meant "warhorse" or "horse used for mounted warfare" and later extended to mean "horse" in general. The borrowing of Old Norse words is due to the fact that Mattinese tribes were once governed by Viking kings for some period of time.

Besides words of Proto-Germanic and Old Norse origin, there are some more recent borrowings from West Germanic languages, some of these more recent West Germanic words are related to food and fashion, possibly due to the immigrants from Germanic-speaking areas.

[edit] [top]Inherited word


Mattinese is not an Indo-European language; however, the continual contacts with Romance, Slavic and Germanic speakers have caused a large influx of vocabulary from these languages, and only around some 700-800 words in Mattinese are inherited as a result. Usually, words expressing basic concepts and ideas, such as dan (man), don (woman), os (child), naid (house), noom (sun), con (summer), are of native origin. Inherited words in Mattinese have several terms for agriculture like wheat and barley but lack terms for metallurgy or animal husbandry, and it has been suggested that the ancestors of Mattinese people before contacts with Indo-Europeans were sedentary neolithic or chalcolithic farmers who made a living mainly by wheat and barley farming.

The Mattinese language has preserved some phonological features that have been lost in related languages like  Modern Standard Sutti, in particular the initial consonant clusters and certain initial nasal consonants; on the other hand, unstressed vowels in word-final position have been elided and stressed vowels have undergone shifts in Mattinese.

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