Talk:Fjallandskt

Nasal Vowels
What do you guys think? Should I add nasal vowels or not?

Ælfwine (talk) 00:08, July 19, 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, sure! I mean, I saw that you wanted it to resemble Faroese and Icelandic and neither of those have nasal vowels, but I think you could do some interesting stuff with them, especially in terms of ablaut and morphology, if Proto-Norse allows that.

Maxseptillion77 (talk) 01:20, July 19, 2016 (UTC)

Yes, it should definitely resemble Faroese and Icelandic, although at the same time it has had other influences. Perhaps the language should look like a compromise been the continental and insular Old Norse? Probably it should be closest to a western or northern Norwegian dialect if it were isolated, sort of like a Norwegian version of Elfdalian, with some low german influences I might include in the grammar. With this line of thinking I might abolish the genitive case but keep the nominative, accusative, and dative cases, with some influence of German in it's verbal forms (Proto-Norse had the prefix ga- marginally, but low german influence could spread it to new forms.)

The biggest thing about this conlang is probably it's vowel harmony, which I'll expand on soon. It'll be derived from Old Norwegian vowel harmony which harmonized the unstressed vowels depending on the height of the stem vowels, and still be productive. It'll also affect the svarabhakti-u in some cases,  sing. nom. hestur > hestor "horse."

Orthographically, I'm thinking that nasal vowels could be distinguished by an ogonek for short vowels and a tilde for long vowels, although I'd have to make seperate characters for the ringed letters å e̊ ı̊. It might be a b*tch to type, but it'd also look cool.

Ælfwine (talk) 05:01, July 19, 2016 (UTC)