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One of the articles in my zine documents the development of my conlang, Havric. It is an Indo-European language that could have hypothetically evolved in Central Asia between the Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian branches. It is influenced heavily by Lithuanian and Persian, as well as the extinct languages of Hittite and Tocharian, and I plan on adding non-Indo-European influence from the Turkic and Mongolic families for realism. I want it to feel as much like a natural language as possible, one that exists within the context of its neighbors and the geopolitical history of the region.
Physical copies of Issue 6 went out to subscribers a week ago, and I'll post it publicly next month, but here's a preview because I wanted to make a post about Havric.
And here are the 12 reconstructions in question
In Issues 5, published in May, I wrote about the specific sound shifts that occurred between Proto-Indo-European and Havric, which I used to make my Proto-Havric reconstruction in Issue 6.
I also took inspiration from Wiktionary's glossed version of Schleicher's Fable (glossing is when you break a text down word-by-word and explain the tenses/conjugations/declensions in order)
*h₂ówis h₁éḱweskʷe *h₂éwyey Hyósmey h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂ ne h₁ést só h₁éḱwoms dérḱt. sḗm gʷréh₂um wóǵʰom wéǵʰet, sḗm méǵh₂m̥ bʰoréh₂m, sḗm ǵʰmónm̥ h₂ṓku bʰéret. h₂ówis h₁éḱwomos wékʷt: "dr̥ḱént ǵʰmṓ h₁éḱwom h₂éǵeti, h₁méne ḱḗr h₁mé kénkti." sḗm h₁éḱwos wékʷt: "ḱludʰí, h₂ówi!, n̥sméy ḱéres n̥smé kénkn̥ti, Hyós ǵʰmṓ, pótis, kʷérti tósmoy pélkim per h₂wĺ̥h₁néh₂ h₂éwis, só h₂ówis h₂wĺ̥h₁néh₂ ne h₁ésti." tóm ḱlutós, só h₂ówis h₁en h₂éǵrom bʰéwget.
sheep-NOM.SG horse-NOM.PL=and sheep-DAT.SG REL-DAT wool-VBADJ-TH-N.PL NEG be-3.SG.AOR that-NOM.SG horse-ACC.PL see-3.SG.AOR | one:NOM heavy-ACC.SG wagon-ACC.SG carry-3.SG.AOR | one:NOM great-ACC.SG load-TH-ACC.SG | one:NOM man-ACC.SG quickly bear-TH-3.SG.AOR | sheep-NOM.SG horse-DAT.PL say-3.SG.AOR | see-PTCP man:NOM.SG drive-T-3.SG.AOR | 1.SG.GEN heart:NOM.SG 1.SG.ACC pain-3.SG.PRES | one:NOM horse-NOM.SG say-3.SG.AOR | listen-IMP.2.SG sheep-VOC | 1.PL.GEN heart-NOM.PL 1.PL.ACC pain-3.PL.PRES REL-NOM man:NOM.SG | master-NOM.SG | make-3.SG.PRES that-DAT.SG cover-DN-ACC.SG from wool-VBADJ-TH-N.NOM.PL sheep:GEN.SG | that-NOM.SG sheep-NOM.SG wool-VBADJ-TH-N.NOM.PL NEG be-3.SG.PRES | that-ACC.SG hear.AOR-VBADJ| that-NOM.SG sheep-NOM.SG in field-ACC.SG flee-TH-3.SG.AOR
There's no definitive version of Havric yet, it's all still in flux as I decide how I want it to sound. I'll write more about it in future issues of the zine, so stay tuned for that.
