Kostish

General information
Evonisk (Eng. Evanish) is a West-Germanic language immediately descended from Old English with no interruption of French, but is is also related to Dutch, English, German, and Swedish. The idea behind it is that it might have been a hypothetical language to develop from Old English if some of the Anglo-Saxons had traveled to an island more northward and thus had their language more influenced by North-Germanic rather than Latin and French influences(and I must say, it is much more clear than Modern English)

Despite the syntax being complete, there aren't many words(so far). Evanish is massively inflectional, and at the moment, It is being carefully constructed, along with prefixes and suffixes to be used in compound words that are in place of Romance words. Many things may still change, and I make edits and additions to this page about once a day, but as it develops more, the updates might become less frequent.

Phonology
There is a simple alphabet, and I won't waste time like many others in explaining the phonetics.

Alphabet
It's a modified Latin alphabet with 32 characters, including: æ, ð, è, ȝ, ò, œ, þ, ù, and ƿ(optional): If a ȝ(yogh) comes at the end of the word, it is silent.
 * A, Æ, B, C, D, Ð, È, E, F, G, Ȝ, H, Y, I, J, K, L, M, N, Ò, O, Œ, P, R, S, Z, T, Þ, Ù, U, V, W
 * a, æ, b, c, d, ð, è, e, f, g, ȝ, h, y, i, j, k, l, m, n, ò, o, œ, p, r, s, z, t, þ, ù, u, v, w

Vowels

Sentence Structures
This is a basic guide for the word order, but it is not very necessary because words are declined for case. ^The punctuation is what the sentence ends with only, all sentences begin with a capital(if not writing in the Elder Futhark).

The indirect object may be placed after or before the direct object, so long as it is declined for case.

Noun Declension
see Evonisk nouns for more details, nouns may change, since Old English, two genders melded into one, and weak and strong verbs have mixed together. Nouns which follow prepositions are used in the dative case.

Articles & Demonstratives
Coming soon... Articles in Evanish come before all nouns except proper nouns and pronouns, the articles gender agrees with its noun.

Conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions aren't decided yet.

Negation
When negating a verb "ne" is added before the verb as a seperate word, that is all. Double negatives mean a positive as in saying "I did not see nobody" would be "I saw someone".

Verb Conjugation
Verbs in Evanish are highly inflectional. There is no simple present, one always uses progressive present, so instead of saying "I like..." or "I think..." it sounds like "I'm liking" or "I'm thinking", but the distinction isn't really noticed in Evanish. For understanding the grammar behind it, see the Evonisk verbs page.

Here's an example of the English verb "to slay"... English has lost much of its morphology, Evanish hasn't... This is also one of the English words with more morphology than the usual as well...

Describing Words
All describing words and phrases come before what they describe, which might sound strange in English. They generally end in -isc(pronounced as English "-ish"). Adjectives are never written post-positively. In this example "foreign" modifies the word "man". Coming soon... 37

Comparative
After the comparative adjective/adverb is written, it is followed by "ðann" meaning "than" (and pronounced the same). There is a difference in meaning between following "ðann" with a word in the nominative and the accusative. In the following example, "Au", "Bu", and "Cu" are in the nominative, while "Ae", "Be", and "Ce" are in the accusative: "Au saw Be quicker than Cu" means "Au saw Be quicker than Cu [saw Be]" while "Au saw Be quicker than Ce" means "Au saw Be quicker than [Au saw] Ce"

Adverbs
They generally end in -lyk. The grammar is the same as adjectives.

Never post-positively
Adjectives and Adverbs cannot be written post-positively, that is, they never follow nouns. An example of post-positive in English would be "tell me something interesting " would have to be written in Evanish as "tell to me an interesting something", note that an article (an) is used, articles must follow every noun and pronouns with the exception of names(and infinitives).

Relative pronouns
relative pronouns are a special set of pronouns declined for the appropriate case straight from Old English.
 * hwalyc - which
 * hwenn - when

Pronouns
To understand these more clearly, see Evonisk nouns. The reflexive is just "self"

A

 * -ar one who has to do with

E

 * -ir forms comparative adjectives

F

 * fyr- of or pertaining to fire [from OE "fyr"]

G

 * ga- together/with (cognate with syn) [CG]

I

 * -isc (pronounced as amer. eng. "ish")added to the end of nouns to form adjectives to mean "ways of or similar to".
 * -ist suffix forming superlative adjectives
 * -iȝ added to mean "full of or characterized by" [CG]
 * -isk is the older form from which isc derives added now only to the end of languages (e. g. Evon isk )

L

 * -lyk added to the end of words generally to form adverbs cognate "Eng -ly"[from Old. Fris. "-lik"]

M

 * -man added to verb stems to form workers of the task [from Ger "mann"]
 * mund- of or pertaining to the mind [CG]

U

 * ur- proto [from Ger "ur"]

Noun Stems
Nouns are all capitalized, each with 5 cases. list here

F

 * Forrist - first

G

 * Galyk - similar [from Ga + liek]

N

 * norþ - north(as an adjective) [from OE "norð"]

S

 * strong - strong [from OE "strang", Eng "strong"]

W

 * walisc - foreign
 * wærm - warm [from OE "wearm"]

Prepositions
prepositions tend to have only one single meaning and cannot be easily translated therefore from Modern English.
 * anehsta - next to (only in the sense of being inside the immediate physical area, used in no other way) [from OE (Anglian) nesta, Modern English anext]
 * uv - of [from swed "av", eng "of"]
 * in - in [from Goth, Ger, OE, "in"]

Verb List
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