Fén Ghír/Dialects

Fén Ghír has split over the years in to several dialogues. The most distinct being Highland Fén followed shortly after by Genibh. Everything outside of this Article is written in Midlands Fén, also known as standard Fén. Finally, there is Southern Fén often lumped either with Genibh Fén or Midlands Fén.

Highlands Fén
The only dialect with a distinct alphabet, unlike most of the Fén, they have created and retained a runic alphabet with two letters [representing a consonant-vowel sound]. Their dialect most closely ressembles what Proto-Fén might have looked like. The most prominant change [outside of the alphabet] is that due to the Runic dual sound letters, words end with a vowel and start with a consonant.

Most Fén words that end with a vowel will have an additional "n" added on. Then following the n, an "a" will be added for verbs, a "u" for nouns and an "o" for adjectives. Exceptions include Pronouns and Quantifiers.

Rather than Copula at the start of a sentance, a subcopula is attached to the end of the first verb in a sentance. In the case where there are more than two main clauses in a sentance, a Copula is added to every verb but the last in the sequence.

When descriping something or making a statement about something, rather than use "Té ... cór ..." as most Fén dialects, Highlands Fén uses "Bhéna ... cu ..." This changes the direct translation from "Someone being under Something" to "Someone having something in them". Blessings also wish the Gods to be with the person, rather than over them.

The "me" preposition is dropped in Highlands Fén.

Finally, Fén Ghír is refered to as Fén Mhóca in Highlands Fén, where in other dialects, Fén Mhóca refers exclusively to the vocabularly.

Genibh/Southern Fén
Genibh Fén refers exclusively to the slang used within the city of Genibh, which often consists of shortening common and well known phrases into single words, as well as spontaneously combining adjectives and verbs to create compounds.

Examples of this include;

May you be under them [the Gods], a Formal Southern Hello. An té ló có're becomes Téló.

The Formal "How are you?", Ach té ét cór re, becomes Ecétóre.

This is essentially an extreme case of the Southern tendancy to merge words. Within the general south, examples are much less extreme;

Prepositions tend to be merged to words if there are no adjectives, typically by dropping the last consonant or vowel from the preposition if the next word begins with one as well, and marking this merge with an apostrophy.

Questions in Southern Fén are more likely to be asked in a negative tone, where this is rare in standard Fén and almost lost in Highland Fén.

Finally, the object in Southern Fén dialect is aspirated regardless of the presence of Adjectives.