Mwyltydd

['muɪ̯l.ti:ð]

Millic (natively Mwyltydd) is a Garro-Milleo language spoken by the Mills (Mwyldaws ['muɪ̯l.daʊ̯s]) on the four mountain islands of Y Llatmwyl Hul on the planet Mycae (which for all intents and purposes is nearly identical to Earth, apart from the geography, cultures, and pretty much everything else so actually it's basically not at all similar.) Also, by some strange coincidence, the Mills use orthography, phonology, and grammar that varies almost insignificantly from that of modern Welsh. This has led some suprademensional beings to question the seemingly spontaneous and random nature of the universe, however, the affairs of lower beings aren't of any relevance enough to inquire. Millic is a mildly inflected analytic language, though it also has some uncommonly realized polysynthetic qualities. As is true in the Insular Celtic of Earth languages, Millic features a heavy usage of verbnouns and a system of initial consonant mutation, and has several other similarities to not only Welsh, but traits of the Goidelic languages as well. In addition, there are several loan words, loan translations, and other influences from the Snake Language spoken by the dolphin population indigenous to the waters around Y Llatmwyl Hul. Dolphins. Dolphins everywhere.

Classification
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 * Asrineo-Cymrean
 * West Asrinean
 * Low Garr ý lic
 * Garro-Milleo
 * New Garr ý lic (extinct)
 * Millic

After the unfortunate and unforeseeable destruction of Llatgar ýl (the former fifth island in the island chain, Wysyr) whereupon New Garr ýlic was spoken, and due to the Millic superstition that the open sea is evil (or at least whatever might lay in wait thereacross), the Mills found themselves alone in the world. Strict population control has been inforced for on the island-states for hundreds of years. So much so that the population actually decreased by 30% over the last century, but at now has been stabilized with a whopping growth factor of 0%. Freaky as it may seem, this was not the work of a nefarious governing body, but instead the choice of the people, content with their humble lives on their four wittle iswands. Similar to their obsessive control of the population, is the Mills control over the uniformity and non-evolution of their language, regulated by Y Dyddych Fonog Fwyltydd (The Millic Language Council). They like it how it is and make sure it don't never changes, not one bit. As such, there are no branching dialects. In order to facilitate this, when certain colloquialisms gain a certain level of popularity, the YDFF will vote on accepting the new device into the standard language (eg. the general plural).

Phonology
Despite this language using Welsh-like orthography (in the Latin alphabet, no less), the phonology hereof is somewhat divulgent from it's Earthen look-alike, oh yes indeed.

Consonants
Notes:
 * All plosives and affricates are slightly aspirated.
 * [ ɾ] is is an allophone of /r/ intervocalicaly.

Orthography
The spelling of Mwyltydd is very similar to that of Welsh with some slight- but important- differences along with some additional phonemes. One should note that the digraph "Qj,qj" unpredictably represents either [ ʝ] or [ ʒ]; a borrowed usage from the snake-language of the Dolphins; a language which has, on Earth, never been able to be translated, despite millions of years of cohabitation.

Consonants
-Millic sonorants /r,m,n,ŋ,/, when followed by orthographic {h}, become /r̥, m̥, n̥, ŋ̊/ respectively.

-In some words, /ʃ/ is produced when {s} precedes /ɪ/ or /i:/.

Monophthongs
- Unaccented vowels are realized as long before single consonants and digraphs {ng, ff, th, dd, sh, ch, ll, qj} except at the end of a word. Word terminally, the length of unmarked vowels is unpredictable.

-Unmarked vowels occurring at the end of words are realized as long. The exceptions being {y} which is realized as /ə/ at the end of a word.

-{y} is realized as /ə/ word terminally and in predetermined words and syllables

Diphthongs
-Syllables containing diphthongs draw lexical stress unless otherwise indicated orthographically.

-When two vowels occur digraphically or adjacent to one another, including across word boundaries, they can optionally be pronounced in hiatus or as a diphthong, excluding the digraphs {wy,  ẃy, yw,  ýw}. However, if the second vowel in such an occurring set is stressed (as marked by an acute accent), the two vowels must be pronounced separately. Similarly, a long vowel indicated by orthography (ie, a vowel with a circumflex) preceding or following another vowel is always pronounced in hiatus (V:.V, V.V:).

-All diphthongs in Millic are falling diphthongs. Semi-vowels followed by another vowel are analyzed as separate phonemes, not diphthongs. {w} and {i,y} before another vowel represent semi-vowels /w/ and /j/ respectively.

Nouns
Nouns were historically inflected in Mwyltydd and remnants of this system can be seen in certain places. The general plural suffix {-u} is a recent development necessitated by and used in contexts where the exact number is not specifically stated or known. However, Mwyltydd does feature a collective-singulative system which has been under constant debate by the YDFF for several decades on whether it should be officially considered a form of inflection, as it is only used to form singulatives from uncountable nouns and groups that are referred to as single units {water > drop of water, forest > tree, flock > bird, etc}. Singulative suffixes are also colloquially used to form partitives (Bread + SS = some bread; the sandwich + SS = part of the sandwich).

Pronouns
The non-emphatic personal pronouns are: The 3rd person singular unspecific forms are equivalent to English "they" and "one".

Numbers
Zero through ten:

Consonant Mutation
Consonant mutation in Mwyltydd is changes in the initial consonant of a word according to the word's morphological, syntactic, or phonemic environment. Rarely, mutations will occur as an independent form of inflection. Vowel-initial words undergo n- and h- prosthesis in environments which trigger the nasal and aspirate mutations respectively.