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'''Knench''' /nɛnt͡ʃ/ (natively /ˈkʰnɔ{{tilde}}ːnɪð/) is a divergent descendent of Canaanite spoken in Lõis Great Britain. It does not lose Semitic triconsonantal morphology, but it loses older Semitic conjugated verb forms in favor of constructions using the infinitive construct. Knench is the second largest Tdūrzů British minority language after Welsh, in fact its syntax is similar to Colloquial Welsh.
'''Knench''' /nɛnt͡ʃ/ (natively /ˈkʰnɔ{{tilde}}ːnɪð/) is a divergent descendent of Canaanite spoken in Lõis Great Britain. It does not lose Semitic triconsonantal morphology, but it loses older Semitic conjugated verb forms in favor of constructions using the infinitive construct. Knench is the second largest Tdūrzů British minority language after Welsh, in fact its syntax is similar to Colloquial Welsh.


Worldbuild Knench neopaganism
Revamp prosody to a more Welshy one
 
* [ˈðoːvʌɾ] "a thing"
"Ancient Canaanite with an English accent"
* [ðʌˈvoːɾaz] "the thing"
 
* [ðaˈvɛːɾi] "things" (affection; plural -īm -> -i)
More conservative Literary Knench register?
* [ðavɛˈɾiːməl] "the things"
 
* [ˈqʰəmʉɾ] "donkey"
The Knench were druids, kinda, before they converted to Christianity
* [ˈjʉːnʌ] "a pigeon"
 
* [jʉˈnoːzʉ] "the pigeon"
l and r treated as in British English, Maghrebi-Arabic-like consonant clusters
* [ˈjʉːnʉð] "pigeons" (Hebrew has yōnīm but let's use the f. pl. ending)
 
* [jʉˈnʉːðil] "the pigeons"
Lots of nativized Latin loans, as in Welsh
 
/ʏ/ (more central than front, as in Icelandic) <- unstressed Vw; /ʊ/ <- unstressed Vl; /ə/ <- unstressed Vr
 
samekh -> /tsʰ/, tsade -> /ts/, zayin -> /z/, sin/shin -> /s/
 
definite suffix: /-əz/ singular; /-ʊ/, dialectally /-əl/ plural
 
Heth and he merge
 
pronouns:
* 1sg /ɪ/, (after vowel) /nɪ/
* 2sg /tʰə/
* 3sg m /hʏ/
* 3sg f /hɪ/
* 1pl /nʏ/
* 2pl /tʰəm/
* 3pl /həm/, (after vowel) /‿m/
 
Prepositions inflect Colloquial Welsh-style
 
/-əs/ (loaned from IE) becomes the default feminine suffix; e.g. /luːh/ 'god/God', /luːhəs/ 'goddess'
 
h-g-y 'to savor'
 
ʔ-h-b 'love': /hyːb/ |ʔhyːb| 'dear, beloved'
 
k-b-r 'big': /kʰəˈpiːə̯/ |kʰəbbiːr| 'big'
 
g-d-l which has merged with q-T-l means 'tyranny, violence, cruelty': /ktuː/ |gduːl| 'tyrant, tyrannical'
 
ʔ-š-r (''ser'' 'sacred tree' -> 'soul')
 
One derivation I'm proud of is Knench młur ’daily life, waking life’ (hypothetical mâʕôr in Hebrew from biliteral ʕ-r 'awake')


== Phonology ==
== Phonology ==

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Knench /nɛnt͡ʃ/ (natively /ˈkʰnɔ̃ːnɪð/) is a divergent descendent of Canaanite spoken in Lõis Great Britain. It does not lose Semitic triconsonantal morphology, but it loses older Semitic conjugated verb forms in favor of constructions using the infinitive construct. Knench is the second largest Tdūrzů British minority language after Welsh, in fact its syntax is similar to Colloquial Welsh.

Revamp prosody to a more Welshy one

  • [ˈðoːvʌɾ] "a thing"
  • [ðʌˈvoːɾaz] "the thing"
  • [ðaˈvɛːɾi] "things" (affection; plural -īm -> -i)
  • [ðavɛˈɾiːməl] "the things"
  • [ˈqʰəmʉɾ] "donkey"
  • [ˈjʉːnʌ] "a pigeon"
  • [jʉˈnoːzʉ] "the pigeon"
  • [ˈjʉːnʉð] "pigeons" (Hebrew has yōnīm but let's use the f. pl. ending)
  • [jʉˈnʉːðil] "the pigeons"

Phonology

Knench phonology is complex, with underlying phonemes resulting in multiple phones depending on the phonetic environment (most importantly, stressed versus unstressed syllables; prevocalic or non-prevocalic for certain laryngeals)

Vowels

Consonants

Phones

Underlying consonants

  • |ʔ| x (often lost) from Old Knench /ʔ/
  • |v| v from Old Knench /b/
  • |ɣ| g from Old Knench /g/
  • |ð| d from Old Knench /d/
  • |h| ḧ (often lost) from Old Knench /h/
  • |w| w from Old Knench /w/
  • |z| z from Old Knench /z/ (from PSem *z and ð)
  • |qʰ| qh from Old Knench /χ/ (from PSem *x and *ħ)
  • |t=| t from Old Knench /tˁ/
  • |j| j from Old Knench /j/
  • |kʰ| ch from Old Knench /k/
  • |l| l from Old Knench /l/
  • |m| m from Old Knench /m/
  • |n| n from Old Knench /n/
  • |s| çh from Old Knench /ts/ (from PSem *s)
  • |ʁ̃| ɣ from Old Knench /ʁ̃/ (from PSem *ɣ and *ʕ)
  • |f| f from Old Knench /p/
  • |p=| p from Latin/Romance /p/
  • |ts=| ç from Old Knench /tsˁ/ (from PSem *ṣ, *ṣ́, and *θ̣)
  • |k=| c from Old Knench /q/
  • |r| r from Old Knench /r/
  • |ʂ| s from Old Knench /s̠/ (from PSem *š, *ś, and *θ)
  • |tʰ| th from Old Knench /t/

qh is in a process of merging with ch in Modern Knench.

Vocalizables

Vocalizables are underlying consonants that have vocalized forms when reduced or manifest as vowel lengthening or closing elements of diphthongs. These are: |ʔ|, |h|, |r|, |ʁ̃|, |l|, and |w|.

Mutation

Morphology

Verbs

Citation form is the singular imperative (same as the bare infinitive construct)

Knench verbs can be from inherited binyanim (fɣul, iffɣel, itfəɣel, fəɣel, afɣel, istəfɣel) or from noun patterns (Assumes speakers are aware of literal meanings of the syntactic constructions)

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