Kantabriagu

Kantábreiha, a sister language to Galeiga, is the revived form of the ancient Celtic language of Northwestern Iberia known as Cantabrian. It's an Ibero-Celtic language with Ibero-Basque loans and a few exceptions for Latin, Gothic Arabic via the Ibero-Romance languages. Many Celtic words from Gallaic and Brythonic survive to this day in Cantabrian, Asturian, Galician and Portuguese, which have been incorporated into the language. There are also loans from Gaulish, Brythonic (Galicia was colonized by Britons during the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain) or from primitive Irish/Gaelic words that can be traced back to their Celtiberian equivalents. Galeiga and Kantábreih are seen as Western Celtiberian and Northern Celtiberian respectively. Kantábreih tends to be much more conservative in its morphology and has a significant Basque influence. The modern areas associated with these languages are Galicia (Gallaecia) and Cantabria. "Tots eizgon tanka tots eizgon arma ez"; "a people without a language is a people without a soul".

Proto Gallaic: Galaeca tangua sena Galaeceis eni Toute-uφos Iberias esi, auota inte nouion to dumne nouie indi cantaiesti uicontis oinos.

Old Gallaic: Galaica tangua sena ad Galaicia eni Tode-ufos ad Iberia esi, auoda ene noiun to duune noie endi cantaisti viconti oinus.

Middle Gallaic: Galaiga tanga sena að Galeigia ene Toðe-fo að Iberea ese, auda an noiu do duunu noiu an gandaise figond oinu.

Galeiga: Galeiga tãg séa aHaleia en Tozefó azIbérea es, ouda ã noiu dó doun noiu ã gandais figõd oen.

Kantábreih: Galeih tanka zena Galeiatz Totzevoan Ibéreatz ez, auda noioa do dun noio kantaiza vihont on.

English: "Gallaic is the old language of Gallaecia in Northwestern Iberia, made anew for the new world of the twenty-first century."

Português: "Neo-Galaico é a lingua antiga da Gallaecia no noroeste da Ibéria, reconstruida para o novo mundo do século vinte e um."

-Name-
Kantábreia>Cantabria>Cantabri: Land of a Hundred Hills. "Canta" (hundred) + "Bria" (hill).

Kantábreih>Cantabrica -Phonology-

all vowels (a,e,i,o,u) are pronounced much the same as they would be in Galician or Asturian, stressed vowels (á,é,í,ó,ú) are elongated and take the word stress, diphthongs take the stress in words as well.

z - /s/

ll - /lj/ (pronounced like the Portuguese "lh")

k - /k/

g - /g/

j - /j/

tx - /tʃ/

h - /x/, /h/

in(vowel) - "iñ_" (Vínu is pronounced "víñu" )

-Lenition and Compound Words-
Lenition in Kantábreiha is purely hypothetical and has been applied here in a limited manner, there being some evidence for it in the continental Celtic tongues. Lenition is applied at a mutation of the initial letter of the second word in compound words and when a personal pronoun is attached to a preposition.

Consonant Mutation Pairs

z>tx

b>m

c>g

g>h

d>tz

t>ts

l>ll

m>v

n>ñ

Compound Lenition (Adjectives and describing nouns precede nouns in compound words)

Kurendeh - Kuren + Teh (Tavern, "beer house")

Aurguren - Aur + Kuren (Cider, "apple beer")

Tentzur - Ten + Dur (Liquor/Spirits, "firewater")

Vinugar - Vínu + Kar (Grape, "wineberry")

Kenan - Ken + -an (Brain, "in head")

This also applies to the plural form of body parts that come in pairs:

Ear: Kruz - Dagruz

Hand: Lam – Dallam

Arm: Brak – Damrak

Leg: Gar – Dahar

Foot: Troh – Dutsroh

Eye: Ok - Duok

-Plural Form-
The plural form of Kantábreiha is mostly regular, borrowing the plural suffix from Basque

Dog - Dogs: Kun - Kuñek

Cat - Cats: Gatu - Gatuek

Beer - Beers: Kuren - Kureñek

House - Houses: Teh - Tehek

-Examples-
"Kantábreih ezo."

"I'm Cantábrian."

"Vinoan vitzahta ez, kurenan launahta ez"

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is joy

"Druvitz ezo, ma kamen Druvitzahta ez."

I am a druid, my path is Druidry.

"Katzuraun ak zelgarauna kurendehatz rakamen. Allan kuren radehen ak kih matza raetzen".

''A warrior and a huntress walked to a tavern. They drank a lot of beer and ate good meat.''

"Urtzuna mu dú ez, umbiote ma kretz ez, Tiara mu nemetsón ez."

The universe is my god, nature is my faith, the Earth is my temple.

-Numbers-
0: zero

1: on - ona (oinos<oino<on - oina<ona)

2: du - da (dwei<dwe<du - dwa<da)

3: tri (tisris<tiris<tris)

4: ketur (kwetru<ketur)

5: kenk (kwenkwe<kenk)

6: zeiz (swexs<sweis<zeis)

7: zet (sextam<seita<zet)

8: oitz (oxtu<oitu<oitz)

9: nav (nawan<naua<nau<nav)

10: deh (dekam<deca<deh)

11: ondeh

12: dudeh

13: trideh

14: cedurdeh

15: kenkdeh

16: zeizdeh

17: zedeh

18: oitzeh

19: navdeh

20: vihont (wikonti<viconti<vihont)

30: vihont deh

40: duvihont

50: duvihont deh

60: trivihont

70: trivihont deh

80: cedurvihont

90: cedurvihont deh

100: cant (kantom<cantu<cant)

1,000: mil

1,000,000: millón