Riphean

Riphean/Music

Riphean is a para-Balto-Slavic language of Tdūrzů, spoken in our Poland, Prussia, Latvia and Lithuania. It is inspired by Czech and Dutch and contains vocabulary we think of as Slavic and non-English Germanic.

TODO

• dzaz 'gas' (from g'hh2sos, cognate to chaos)
• ďouž, ďouža (n) 'animal' (from dhewsom)
• síziž 'to declare, to decide' (~ censeō)
• h1ed-esi -> etež "to eat"
• neyHesi -> ňíž "to churn"
• šľou, šľouza (n) "word" (ķlewos)
• kena (f) "woman"

UDHR

Wiži dzíni kimeđ waleni um lejki in zwem chejn um zwame đejžem.

/ˈʋɪʒɪ ˈdziːɲɪ ˈkɪman ˈʋaleɲɪ ɪm ˈlɛjkɪ ɪn zʋɛm xɛjn ɪm ˈzʋamɛ ˈðɛjʒɛm/

(um ~ Latin ambō)

hejn ~ τῑμή 'honor', đejše ~ teisė

Phonology

Riphean has consistent initial stress and a prosody similar to Czech.

Morphology

Nouns and adjectives

Masculine animate

manč "man"

• nom. manč, manči
• gen. mančez, manču
• dat. manče, mančem
• acc. mančez, mančuz

Feminine -a

kena "woman"

• nom. kena, kenaz
• gen. kenaz, kenu
• dat. kene, kenam
• acc. kena, kenaz

Neuter

cíđ "child" (<- ģenh1tom)

• nom. cíđ, cíđa
• gen. cíđez, cíđu
• dat. cíđe, cíđem
• acc. cíđ, cíđa

Adjectives

'the happy person'
nom. zachistľuwe dzín, zachistľuwi dzíni
acc. zachistľuwou dzín, zachistľuwej dzíni
gen. zachistľuwez dzínez, zachistľuwiž dzíni
dat. zachistľuwem dzín, zachistľuwame dzínem

Verbs

etež "to eat"

ec etem, již eteđ, ež eteđ, đam etar, jilid eteđ, í eteđ

negative ne

Numerals

ejn, twá, đrí, cheđur, vích, zešt, zevouđ, astuđ, ňouđ, tezou

ejnľez, twáľez, đríľez, cheđurľez, víľez, zešľez, zevaľez, astľez, ňouľez, twácouđi

đrícouđi, cheđurcouđi, vícouđi, zešcouđi, zevacouđi, ascouđi, ňucouđi, stou? (random change from kmtom -> ktom, influenced by the ordinal stouđe <- ktm-tos)

Syntax

German-like?

Swadesh list

I: ec
thou: již
he: iž
we: đam (originally a dummy word used with the impersonal, from "there")
ye: jilid
they: í
this: siđe
that: đađe
here: sur
there: đur