South Vimnic

South Vimnic (Vgha) is spoken on the southeast coast of the Mainland and throughout the Southern Mountains. It has had extensive and artificial reconstruction and simplification from its archaic predecessor and is the official language of several small nations.

Classification
South Vimnic is a Vimnic language, but one of the least related languages in this family as it has been heavily constructed. South Vimnic is the indirect descendant of Old South Vimnic, being largely constructed from texts in Old South Vimnic. It also has large amounts of reconstruction via other Vimnic languages and Vimnic-Tev creoles, as well as influences from Aurwean. Like most Vimnic languages, South Vimnic has a fairly flexible VSO-VOS word order, a large inventory of consonants and particles, no adjectives, and an active-stative morphosyntactic alignment. Unlike most Vimnic languages—which are generally isolative—South Vimnic is agglutinative.

Dialects
Modern South Vimnic has numerous dialects:


 * Standard dialect: The dialect spoken in nearly all of the major cities and by approximately 68% of the population. It could potentially be split into slightly deviating regional dialects.

Phonotactics
There are no vowel diphthongs in South Vimnic and regular vowels become nasalised before nasal consonants. South Vimnic also has many words with large consonant clusters and even words with many consonants and no vowels.

There is also a three-class consonant harmony system—class I mostly consists of voiced non-nasal plosives, affricates, and fricatives; class II mostly consists of voiceless non-nasal plosives, affricates, and fricatives; and class III mostly of nasal plosives and approximants. Consonant harmony in South Vimnic may affect the form of the morphemes on certain roots—if a root is class I, and the morpheme is class II, the consonants of the morpheme will shift to their class I equivalent and vice versa. However, consonants of class III—except c—and r and r̈ will assimilate to their consonant cluster's voicing.

Syntax
VSO/VOS word order

Lexicon

 * ṡȯxt (u hıjkna̖rw) [ʂœxt] n. sapling, shrub; (dialectal) n. thicket, grove, fen
 * kṡȯxt (dialectal) n. moss
 * ṡȯ̖xt (u hıjkna̖rw) [ʂœxt] n. tree
 * ṡȯ̗xt (u hıjkna̖rw) [ʂœxt] n. hedge; (dialectal) n. fence, region, area
 * kṡȯxt (u hıjkna̖rw) [kʂœxt] n. paper
 * pkṡȯxt (u hıjkna̖rw) [pkʂœxt] n. letter, writings, message (on paper)
 * pkṡȯ̗xt (u hıjkna̖rw) [pkʂœxt] n. wood louse
 * kṡȯ̖xt (u hıjkna̖rw) [kʂœxt] n. lumber; (colloquial) n. wooden item; (dialectal) n. hut, shed, grave
 * pkṡȯ̖xt (dialectal) n. maggot
 * kṡȯ̗xt (u hıjkna̖rw) [kʂœxt] building ; (dialectal) house
 * tca (u hıjkna̖rw) [tʼɑ³] v. to investigate, to question, to interrogate; n. investigation, question, interrogation; (dialectal) suspect, think
 * tca̖ (u hıjkna̖rw) [tʼɑ⁵] v. to confirm, to affirm, to reassure; n. confirmation, reassurance
 * tca̗ (u hıjkna̖rw) [tʼɑ⁵] (when confirming something) ptc. yes

Basic sentences

 * e̖npṡox enqala lea sıṫxȧ̗ẋqcë?
 * Translation: Why are you going home?
 * IPA (U̱ Hı̱jkna̖rw pronunciation): [ɛ̃³²ˈn̥pʂo⁵⁵x ɛ̃²ˈnɢɑ⁵⁵l.ɑ² ˈlɛ⁵⁵.ɑ² sɨ²ˈθxæ³⁵.ħqʼə²]