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Veytharian - phonetic equivalents to Veyrathi

Basic idea

Veytharian is not a renamed variety of Veyrathi, but a sister language. Both go back to a common precursor, but have developed differently:

Veyrathi has been smoothed, standardized and designed for high learnability.
Veytharisch preserved older consonant edges, reduced final syllables and developed a stronger sentence bracket.

Regular correspondences

Veyrathi	Veythar	Typical effect
`ey`	`ei`	diphthong shift
Verb on `-a`	Infinitive on `-en`, finite stem form	Loss of final vowel and new formation of the lexicon entry
`-ath`	`-eth`	Abstract suffix shifts
Plural `-ir`	Plural `-ei`	social/animated remains recognizable, but shifted in sound
`ar`	`ae`	Article narrows and raises the vowel quality
open final syllable	closed final syllable	more compact word image

Cognate examples

Meaning	Veyrathi	Veythar
speak	veyra	veiren / veir
see	seyra	seiren / seir
go	tala	talen / valley
give	nava	naven / nav
speech	veyrath	veireth
view	seyrath	seireth
Advice	thalor	thal
contract	kevar	kevar
law	vethan	veth
Market	kethar	keth
door	goals	goal
food	pethan	peth
strong	draz	draes
new	zeya	time
definite article word	ar	ae

Grammatical drift

Veyrathi marks tense directly on the main verb; Veytharisch works more often with auxiliaries.
Veyrathi often has no copula in unmarked present sentences; She almost always demands Veytharisch.
Veyrathi prefers to build possession with possessive forms; Veytharisch productively uses the particles na.
Veyrathi remains neutral SVO; Veytharisch develops a stable second verb pattern in the main clause.

Understandability

Individual words are often recognized between the two languages.
Short ritual formulas and legal titles remain relatively transparent.
Freely spoken everyday sentences are significantly more difficult to understand each other due to sound reduction, V2 structure and use of auxiliary verbs.

In this section

Veytharisch - Overview

ÜbersichtÜbersichtPurpose: Regional language of the western coastal and highland kingdoms of Enaris; closely related to Veyrathi, but clearly distinct.DokumentVeytharisch - writing system- Veytharisch uses the same basic script tradition as Veyrathi and can be documented with the same Latin working romanization.DokumentVeytharian - Phonology- Vowels: /a e i o u ae/DokumentVeytharian - Morphology- Significantly less regular than Veyrathi, but can still be described systematically.DokumentVeythar syntax- Main clauses show a clear second-verb tendency in the standard.DokumentVeytharisch - semantics and pragmatics- Veytharian is less neutral than Veyrathi and carries stronger signals of affiliation.DokumentVeytharisch - Lexicon- Verbs appear in the lexicon as infinitives -en .DokumentVeytharian - phonetic equivalents to VeyrathiVeytharian is not a renamed variety of Veyrathi, but a sister language. Both go back to a common precursor, but have developed differently:DokumentVeythar - Examples- Nai veir. = I speak.DokumentVeytharisch - Crown and administrative terminologyThis chapter expands High Veytharian to include monarchical, courtly and administrative lexicon. The new forms are consciously built from existing roots of t...DokumentVeythar - SummaryVeytharic is a closely related but independent language of Enaris that is closely related to Veyrathi. Both share many roots and cultural old words, but have...