Galavic

Introduction
A Proto-Fén langauge, Oghaenic spawned a number of other languages.

History
A proto-language which might develop into a fuller conlang and then language family. For now, it's by best attempt to give the Fén langauge a plausible backstory and development. Oghaenic is now a largely dead language in the setting, supplanted by regional dialects that arose as they spread further over the continent. Fén is one of the four resulting langauges.

The Oghaenic language never developed its own writing system.

Vowels
Oghaenic does not distinguish vowel lengths.

Oghaenic Mutations
Generally the intended native accent of individual words in this language, one should imagine a heavily French influenced Irish.

Phonotactics
Smallest Syllables Possible, Diphthongs are avoided even in the construction of compound words.

Consonants can consist of C-V-V, C-V, V-V or V.

Masc/Fem Distinction
Long/Short vowels in Fén are used in Oghaenic to mark a consonant sound as masculine/feminine respectively. A consonant is always surrounded by vowels of the same type, though these vowels may be subordinated into a schwa and barely pronounced, particularly in cases of odd or difficult diphthongs.

a noun ending is always "ni" if feminine, "na" if masculine.

Pluralization consists of adding a lentitioned "b" sound [v or w].

A verb ending will usually be "əne" if feminine or "əno" if masculine.

Historical Shifts from Oghaenic to Fén
Long-Short Vowel distinctions were made, Long vowels assimilated the weaker sounds in diphthongs.

f because distinct as a softened sound.

Genders were dropped.

t-c, n-ɲ, d-g, ʀ-r, ʎ-l, χ-h became distinct as genders were dropped. Fén is in the process of separating s-k.

c, ɲ, ʀ, ʎ and χ were assimilated into t/k, n, r, l  and h respectively.

Object Preposition developed.

Noun/Verb distinct endings were dropped and the words were shortened.