Difference between revisions of "Andaro-Yenmic Languages"

The Andaro-Yenmic languages presumably originate in the mountain valleys south of [[Mt. Andaron]] and the [[Pass of Yan]], not far from the [[River Besokan|Besokan Valley]] and the urheimat of the [[Besokian peoples|Besokians]]; for this and many other reasons, they have often been presumed to [[Peopling of Elondor|descend from a common ancestor]] or be otherwise not too distantly related. Their branches split up early, the [[Andarian peoples|Andarians]] migrating west and becoming the first to subdue most of the [[Dejntar|western Reknaya]]. Their kingdoms persisted until the expansion of the [[Kattasi peoples|Kattasi]] drove them even further west, down into the [[Geranian Heath|plains of Geran]], but even there, they could not remain, and when the Kattasi kept expanding and the [[Early Aribelians|ancestors of the Aribelians]] came up from the south, they were pushed back further to the shores of the [[Runion|western sea]], forming states in the later [[Hajalad]], on the [[Norides]], and north into the valley of the [[River Kalpa]]. Dwelling on its banks and the shores of its estuary, the most prominent of their nations were the [[Kalparians]], known for their naval prowess and their unwillingness to bend the knee to anyone not of their own kin. Under [[Lécaronian Empire|Lécaronian]] rule, they were the first to [[Kalparian Language#Rivival|revive their language]], which had been forbidden by the Olgish invaders, and among the first to in a [[Kalparian Rebellions|series of rebellions]] win their freedom.

The Andaro-Yenmic languages presumably originate in the mountain valleys south of [[Mt. Andaron]] and the [[Pass of Yan]], not far from the [[River Besokan|Besokan Valley]] and the urheimat of the [[Besokian peoples|Besokians]]; for this and many other reasons, they have often been presumed to [[Peopling of Elondor|descend from a common ancestor]] or be otherwise not too distantly related. Their branches split up early, the [[Andarian peoples|Andarians]] migrating west and becoming the first to subdue most of the [[Dejntar|western Reknaya]]. Their kingdoms persisted until the expansion of the [[Kattasi peoples|Kattasi]] drove them even further west, down into the [[Geranian Heath|plains of Geran]], but even there, they could not remain, and when the Kattasi kept expanding and the [[Early Aribelians|ancestors of the Aribelians]] came up from the south, they were pushed back further to the shores of the [[Runion|western sea]], forming states in the later [[Hajalad]], on the [[Norides]], and north into the valley of the [[River Kalpa]]. Dwelling on its banks and the shores of its estuary, the most prominent of their nations were the [[Kalparians]], known for their naval prowess and their unwillingness to bend the knee to anyone not of their own kin. Under [[Lécaronian Empire|Lécaronian]] rule, they were the first to [[Kalparian Language#Rivival|revive their language]], which had been forbidden by the Olgish invaders, and among the first to in a [[Kalparian Rebellions|series of rebellions]] win their freedom.

== Structure ==

== Structure ==

Andaro-Yenmic morphology is predominantly agglutinating, focussing on the coding of case and number on nouns. A curious feature shared by all Andarian languages, and presumably the Yenmic languages before contact with Volsic and/or Celdic, is the seeming absence of verbs, not unlike the near-complete indifference to lexical categories found in Besokian languages, one of the many indications of genetic relations between the two. Sentences are usually analysed as possessing a null-copula, with the semantic predicate role most commonly fulfilled by a noun denoting an action or a process, as in Kal. ''Metila pepan''. ‘Any day [is] their entrance.’ ''i. e.'' ‘They might come any day.’

Andaro-Yenmic morphology is predominantly agglutinating, focussing on the coding of case and number on nouns. A curious feature shared by all Andarian languages, and presumably the Yenmic languages before contact with Volsic and/or Celdic, is the seeming absence of verbs, not unlike the near-complete indifference to lexical categories found in Besokian languages, one of the many indications of genetic relations between the two. Sentences are usually analysed as possessing a null-copula, with the semantic predicate role most commonly fulfilled by a noun denoting an action or a process, as in Kal. ''Metila pepan''. ‘Any day [is] their entrance.’ ''i. e.'' ‘They might come any day.’