Teang'Quess

The Elven Tongue

Natively known as: teangquess (tʲang-kweθ) teangquess (tʲang-kweθ) /ˌteangˈquess ˈtʲaŋkweθ)/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
lo ngǎar glier lumt dlayl lo mǎer lwur yeyk dlayl slha pyæ lo ngǎar glier lumt dlayl lo mǎer lwur yeyk dlayl slha pya
Pronunciation: /lo ˈngəar ˈglier lumt dlajl lo ˈməer lwuɾ jejk dlajl ɬa pjæ/
Elven word order: and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d g h j k l m n p t w ŋ ɬ ɾ ʃ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n			ŋ
Stop	p b	t d			k g
Fricative			ʃ			h
Approximant				j
Tap		ɾ
Lateral fricative		ɬ
Lateral approximant		l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: a e i o u æ ə

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
High-mid	e		o
Mid		ə
Near-low	æ
Low	a

Syllable structure: Custom defined ?
Stress pattern: Penultimate — stress is on the second last syllable ?
Sound changes (in order of application):

• k → ch / #_
• i → y / _#
• k → g / V_V

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ə	ǎ
ɾ	r
j	y
ʃ	sh
ŋ	ng
ɬ	slh

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject Verb Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Mary opened the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned before the noun.
Adposition: prepositions ?

Numbers

Elven has a base-10 number system:
1 - bewr bewr
2 - lwitsh lwitsh
3 - pyeyt pyeyt
4 - ga ga
5 - nlan nlan
6 - wæ wa
7 - sheyk sheyk
8 - hæ ha
9 - whe whe
10 - æ a
100 - shnok shnok
1000 - shneg shneg

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = Suffix -ys
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Prefix eir-
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -enn
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -gann
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -al
Noun to verb = Suffix -ach
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -iant
Tending to = Suffix -aros
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = Suffix -gweith
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = Suffix -wyr
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Suffix -dor
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Suffix -baeth
Diminutive = Prefix da-
Augmentative = Prefix cil-
Opposite = Prefix an-
Magical = Suffix -hudol
Royal = Prefix ara-
Intensifier = Prefix mawr-
Progressive = Suffix -oed

Dictionary

3028 Words.

Spoken by

• Chokurri