Teelian language
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| Teelian | |
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| Teelu Köhe | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈte:lu køˈwe] |
| Region | Teelian Archipelago |
| Ethnicity | Teelians |
| Era | 600 ANB - Present |
Kivic
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Early forms | |
| Teel script | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | |
Teelian (Teelu Köhe [ˈte:lu køˈwe]) is an East Kivic language spoken throughout the Teelian Archipelago, descended from Old Teelian and therefore closely related to Raigu, and more distantly to Yuren. It is thought to have originated in the northern islands of the archipelago and spread southward through the expansion of the Teelians. It contains a significant number of loanwords from Proto-Vugotic, which entered the language with the arrival of the Vugonesians in 1000 BNB, and from Doli, which entered during the expansion of the Bahlian Empire c. 140 BNB. Today it is spoken by nearly 8 million people as a first language, mostly within Teel, where it is the official language.
Grammar
Sentence structure
Teelian follows the pattern of other Kivic languages in that it is a primarily VSO, highly agglutinative, nominative-accusative language.
Hots kuman uröy
"The marshall cooks the stew" (lit. "Cooks the marshall the stew")
Teelian also makes use of object-exclusive topic marking, moving the object to the very beginning of the phrase; this seemingly therefore creates an OVS word order.
Uröts hots kuman
"About the stew, the marshall cooks (it)"