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'''Venetian Hebrew''' (''ngiwrith'' /ˈɲiwriθ/) is a basilect of Hebrew spoken in Lõis's Northern Italy, Austria and Southern Germany.
'''Knench''' /nɛnt͡ʃ/ (natively /ˈkʰnɔ{{tilde}}ːnɪð/) is a divergent descendent of Canaanite spoken in Lõis Great Britain. It does not lose Semitic triconsonantal morphology, but it loses older Semitic conjugated verb forms in favor of constructions using the infinitive construct. Knench is the second largest Tdūrzů British minority language after Welsh, in fact its syntax is similar to Colloquial Welsh.


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The Knench were druids, kinda, before they converted to Christianity


==Introduction==
l and r treated as in British English, Maghrebi-Arabic-like consonant clusters


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Lots of nativized Latin loans, as in Welsh


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/ʏ/ (more central than front, as in Icelandic) <- unstressed Vw; /ʊ/ <- unstressed Vl; /ə/ <- unstressed Vr


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samekh -> /tsʰ/, tsade -> /ts/, zayin -> /z/, sin/shin -> /s/
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definite suffix: /-əz/ singular; /-ʊ/, dialectally /-əl/ plural


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Heth and he merge
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Vowel inventory
pronouns:
Consonant inventory
* 1sg /ɪ/, (after vowel) /nɪ/
Syllable structure
* 2sg /tʰə/
Stress
* 3sg m /hʏ/
Intonation
* 3sg f /hɪ/
* 1pl /nʏ/
* 2pl /tʰəm/
* 3pl /həm/, (after vowel) /‿m/


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Prepositions inflect Colloquial Welsh-style
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Consonants===
/m pʰ b f w n tʰ t˭ d θ ð ts s z ɬ ʂ j ŋ kʰ k˭ g x h l r/ {{angbr|''m p b f w n t tt d th dh ts s z σ sz y ng k kk g kh h l r''}}


Allophonic palatalization occurs before /i/ or /j/. /ŋ kʰ k˭ g x/ palatalize to alveolopalatals /ɲ tɕʰ tɕ˭ dʑ ɕ/.
/-əs/ (loaned from IE) becomes the default feminine suffix; e.g. /luːh/ 'god/God', /luːhəs/ 'goddess'


===Vowels===
h-g-y 'to savor'
/a ɛ i ɔ u ə/ = {{angbr|''a e i o u ø''}}


Word-final /i/ is silent and palatalizes the preceding consonant.
ʔ-h-b 'love': /hyːb/ |ʔhyːb| 'dear, beloved'


===Prosody===
k-b-r 'big': /kʰəˈpiːə̯/ |kʰəbbiːr| 'big'
====Stress====
Stress is always initial.


====Intonation====
g-d-l which has merged with q-T-l means 'tyranny, violence, cruelty': /ktuː/ |gduːl| 'tyrant, tyrannical'


===Phonotactics===
ʔ-š-r (''ser'' 'sacred tree' -> 'soul')
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===Morphophonology===
==Morphology==
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One derivation I'm proud of is Knench młur ’daily life, waking life’ (hypothetical mâʕôr in Hebrew from biliteral ʕ-r 'awake')


Nouns
== Phonology ==
Adjectives
Knench phonology is complex, with underlying phonemes resulting in multiple phones depending on the phonetic environment (most importantly, stressed versus unstressed syllables; prevocalic or non-prevocalic for certain laryngeals)
Verbs
=== Vowels ===
Adverbs
=== Consonants ===
Particles
==== Phones ====
Derivational morphology
==== Underlying consonants ====
* |ʔ| (often lost) from Old Knench /ʔ/
* |v| from Old Knench /b/
* |ɣ| from Old Knench /g/
* |ð| from Old Knench /d/
* |h| (often lost) from Old Knench /h/
* |w| from Old Knench /w/
* |z| from Old Knench /z/ (from PSem *z and ð)
* |ħ| from Old Knench /ħ/ (from PSem *x and *ħ)
* |t=| from Old Knench /t{{phar}}/
* |j| from Old Knench /j/
* |kʰ| from Old Knench /k/
* |l| from Old Knench /l/
* |m| from Old Knench /m/
* |n| from Old Knench /n/
* |tsʰ| from Old Knench /ts/ (from PSem *s)
* |ʁ{{tilde}}| from Old Knench /ʕ/ (from PSem *ɣ and *ʕ)
* |f| from Old Knench /p/
* |p=| from Latin/Romance /p/
* |ts=| from Old Knench /tsˁ/ (from PSem *s{{cdb}}, *ś{{cdb}}, and *θ{{cdb}})
* |k=| from Old Knench /q/
* |r| from Old Knench /r/
* |s| from Old Knench /s/ (from PSem *š, *ś, and *θ)
* |tʰ| from Old Knench /t/


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==== Vocalizables ====
===Nouns and adjectives===
''Vocalizables'' are underlying consonants that have vocalized forms when reduced or manifest as vowel lengthening or closing elements of diphthongs. These are: |ʔ|, |h|, |r|, |ʁ{{tilde}}|, |l|, and |w|.
Nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inflect for number. Adjectives agree with nouns in gender and number.


*The regular feminine singular suffix is -ø or -th.
=== Mutation ===
*The regular masculine plural suffix is -i after consonants and -yø after vowels.
*The regular feminine plural is -uth.


''køfor, køfori'' (m) = village, villages
== Morphology ==
=== Verbs ===
Citation form is the singular imperative (same as the bare infinitive construct)


''bagbøg, bagbøgi'' (m) = bottle, bottles
Knench verbs can be from inherited binyanim (fłul, iffłel, itfəłłel, fəłłel, afłel, istəfłel) or from noun patterns (Assumes speakers are aware of literal meanings of the syntactic constructions)
 
''i, iyø'' (m) = island, islands
 
''kkiszø, kkiszøyø'' (m) = squash, squashes
 
''gøfø, gøfuth'' (f) = corpse, corpses
 
''tagrith, tagriyuth'' (f) = incident, incidents
 
===Verbs===
Clauses take the form of ''inflected pronoun + preposition/aspect marker + verbal noun''.
====Copula====
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="greentable lightgreenbg" style="width: 700px; text-align:center;"
|+ Inflection of the copula (Present tense)
! style="width: 75px; "| → Person<br/>↓ Truth value
! style="width: 75px; " | 1sg
! style="width: 75px; " | 2sg.m
! style="width: 75px; " | 2sg.f
! style="width: 75px; " | 3sg.m
! style="width: 75px; " | 3sg.f
! style="width: 75px; " | 1pl.in
! style="width: 75px; " | 2pl
! style="width: 75px; " | 3pl
|-
! Affirmative
| ''ni''
| ''to''
| ''ad''
| ''u''
| ''i''
| ''nan''
| ''ti''
| ''em''
|-
! Interrogative
| ''ini''
| ''intø''
| ''imad''
| ''imu''
| ''imi''
| ''inan''
| ''inti''
| ''iyum''
|-
! Negative
| ''eni''
| ''ekhø''
| ''ekh''
| ''enu''
| ''enø''
| ''enen''
| ''ekhi''
| ''enøm''
|}
 
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
===Noun phrase===
The definite article is a clitic:
*Singular: -az (after C) or -zø (after V)
*Plural: -el
Examples:
*''hadhør'' = a room
*''hadhøraz'' = the room
*''hadhør godhul'' = a big room
*''hadhør godhulaz'' = the big room
*''boti godhuli'' = big houses
*''boti godhuliel'' = the big houses
 
===Verb phrase===
===Sentence phrase===
===Dependent clauses===
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==Other resources==
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Latest revision as of 19:28, 27 April 2026

Knench /nɛnt͡ʃ/ (natively /ˈkʰnɔ̃ːnɪð/) is a divergent descendent of Canaanite spoken in Lõis Great Britain. It does not lose Semitic triconsonantal morphology, but it loses older Semitic conjugated verb forms in favor of constructions using the infinitive construct. Knench is the second largest Tdūrzů British minority language after Welsh, in fact its syntax is similar to Colloquial Welsh.

Worldbuild Knench neopaganism

"Ancient Canaanite with an English accent"

More conservative Literary Knench register?

The Knench were druids, kinda, before they converted to Christianity

l and r treated as in British English, Maghrebi-Arabic-like consonant clusters

Lots of nativized Latin loans, as in Welsh

/ʏ/ (more central than front, as in Icelandic) <- unstressed Vw; /ʊ/ <- unstressed Vl; /ə/ <- unstressed Vr

samekh -> /tsʰ/, tsade -> /ts/, zayin -> /z/, sin/shin -> /s/

definite suffix: /-əz/ singular; /-ʊ/, dialectally /-əl/ plural

Heth and he merge

pronouns:

  • 1sg /ɪ/, (after vowel) /nɪ/
  • 2sg /tʰə/
  • 3sg m /hʏ/
  • 3sg f /hɪ/
  • 1pl /nʏ/
  • 2pl /tʰəm/
  • 3pl /həm/, (after vowel) /‿m/

Prepositions inflect Colloquial Welsh-style

/-əs/ (loaned from IE) becomes the default feminine suffix; e.g. /luːh/ 'god/God', /luːhəs/ 'goddess'

h-g-y 'to savor'

ʔ-h-b 'love': /hyːb/ |ʔhyːb| 'dear, beloved'

k-b-r 'big': /kʰəˈpiːə̯/ |kʰəbbiːr| 'big'

g-d-l which has merged with q-T-l means 'tyranny, violence, cruelty': /ktuː/ |gduːl| 'tyrant, tyrannical'

ʔ-š-r (ser 'sacred tree' -> 'soul')

One derivation I'm proud of is Knench młur ’daily life, waking life’ (hypothetical mâʕôr in Hebrew from biliteral ʕ-r 'awake')

Phonology

Knench phonology is complex, with underlying phonemes resulting in multiple phones depending on the phonetic environment (most importantly, stressed versus unstressed syllables; prevocalic or non-prevocalic for certain laryngeals)

Vowels

Consonants

Phones

Underlying consonants

  • |ʔ| (often lost) from Old Knench /ʔ/
  • |v| from Old Knench /b/
  • |ɣ| from Old Knench /g/
  • |ð| from Old Knench /d/
  • |h| (often lost) from Old Knench /h/
  • |w| from Old Knench /w/
  • |z| from Old Knench /z/ (from PSem *z and ð)
  • |ħ| from Old Knench /ħ/ (from PSem *x and *ħ)
  • |t=| from Old Knench /tˁ/
  • |j| from Old Knench /j/
  • |kʰ| from Old Knench /k/
  • |l| from Old Knench /l/
  • |m| from Old Knench /m/
  • |n| from Old Knench /n/
  • |tsʰ| from Old Knench /ts/ (from PSem *s)
  • |ʁ̃| from Old Knench /ʕ/ (from PSem *ɣ and *ʕ)
  • |f| from Old Knench /p/
  • |p=| from Latin/Romance /p/
  • |ts=| from Old Knench /tsˁ/ (from PSem *ṣ, *ṣ́, and *θ̣)
  • |k=| from Old Knench /q/
  • |r| from Old Knench /r/
  • |s| from Old Knench /s/ (from PSem *š, *ś, and *θ)
  • |tʰ| from Old Knench /t/

Vocalizables

Vocalizables are underlying consonants that have vocalized forms when reduced or manifest as vowel lengthening or closing elements of diphthongs. These are: |ʔ|, |h|, |r|, |ʁ̃|, |l|, and |w|.

Mutation

Morphology

Verbs

Citation form is the singular imperative (same as the bare infinitive construct)

Knench verbs can be from inherited binyanim (fłul, iffłel, itfəłłel, fəłłel, afłel, istəfłel) or from noun patterns (Assumes speakers are aware of literal meanings of the syntactic constructions)

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