South Vimnic

South Vimnic (Vgha) is the descendant of Old South Vimnic (a member of the Vimnic language family). It is spoken on the southeast coast of the Mainland and throughout the Southern Mountains. It is the official language of several small nations.

In the past, the peoples of this region were invaded twice by the Tev who then colonised the region. Between these two attempts at colonisation, Old South Vimnic became extinct and much of the native language became permanently lost. After the region regained independence, the language of the region was splintered among various Tev Creoles. The newly-formed governments in the region agreed to create a revived, purist form of Old South Vimnic with most non-Vimnic influences eliminated, excepting the agglutinative morphology (Old South Vimnic was isolating, whereas Tev is fusional; the Tev Creoles were mostly agglutinative). Modern South Vimnic was created using the few remaining texts in Old South Vimnic, compounding, abbreviation, reconstructions based on other Vimnic languages, and even abstractions. Various grammatical rules were also simplified and most grammatical exceptions were eliminated. The governments of this region spread the modern South Vimnic language via a newly-formed religious institution in a series of fairly successful campaigns.

This effort slowed and eventually halted due to a plague whose aftermath led to civil war and prompted a third invasion, this time by the Aurwe. During this time, the free compounding via South Vimnic's large amount of particles with varied lexical, phonological, and grammatical influences from the Aurwe language altered the language and led to a diversification of the dialects. After this chaotic period, the governments of the region attempted a new linguistic purist movement which was, in general, poorly received and was quickly discontinued despite limited success early on.

Classification and Dialects
Coming soon

Phonology
Improvements coming soon.

Consonants
Standard dialect:

Vowels
Standard dialect:

Phonotactics
There are no vowel diphthongs in South Vimnic. When a vowel precedes another vowel due to morphemes or foreign origin, ʔ is inserted between them, including between words (see Syntax for details).

There is also consonant "voice harmony"—mostly defined by voicing in bilabial to velar plosives and fricatives—which prevents "voiced" consonants from being in a word with "unvoiced" consonants. When an "unvoiced" particle is appended a "voiced" stem, the consonants in that particle assume their "voiced" form and vice versa. In South Vimnic, the "voice harmony" rules are not entirely intuitive. For example, while both r and ŕ represent voiced consonants, they are considered "unvoiced" and share the "voiced" form ṙ. If ṙ becomes "devoiced" however, it can only become r. There are also "neutral" consonants which generally do not affect the "voice harmony" (see Syntax for details). The details are in the table below.

Writing System
Coming soon (romanised system—It might be a while before I include the glyphs if ever.)

Grammar
Coming soon

VSO/VOS word order

Lexicon
Coming soon

Example text
More will come later.
 * e˧˩npśo˧x le˧ʔạ˧ḿqa˧ e˧nqa˧la˧ʔ qʔǝ˧sı˧ṫxä˧˥ḣa˧?
 * Translation: Why are you going home?
 * IPA (standard pronunciation): /ˈɛ̃ː˧˩n.p͡ʂo˧x lɛ˧ˈʔãː˧.ɱqa˧ ɛ̃˧nˈqaː˧.laʔ qˀə˧.sɨ˧ˈθ͡xæː˧˥ħa˧/