[Language] Neu-Savoiê, a Savoyardic Resurrection.

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Neu-Savoiêr

A MODERN OUTLOOK ON THE SAVOYARDIC LANGUAGE

 

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Penned by Owyn Hector Ashford de Savoie.

 

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As time, lineages and generations come and go, the Savoyardic culture has diluted more and more amidst the different realms it has been subscribed under. What was once a proud Principality and Imperial Duchy, represented at its height by King Olivier de Savoie of Oren, as well as King Guy Ashford de Bar of Oren, finds itself, today, scattered across Aevos in several different realms, with little cultural unity or representation to even consider themselves a proper ethnic group. Verily, the identity of “SAVOYARD” seems to have lost itself in time, an unfortunate result of continuous attempts from our ancestors to restore the Savoyards to past glories.

 

As such, an effort must be made by Savoyards across Aevos to recover the culture, to recover this identity, to resurge from the ashes. Of the many foundational pillars an ethnicity, or cultural group, tend to possess, chief amongst them are a shared language, a common ancestry and a shared homeland. For the latter two are remembered through the Principality, at its latest being present in Aevos itself in its earlier history, it would seem that Savoyardic has often been mistaken, or incorrectly “lumped in” with Auvergnat. Such a notion, although not entirely without its merit - given Auvergnat’s overall cultural importance to Humankind as a whole - is wholly incorrect - Savoyardic, although its identity mostly lost, has always belonged to its own linguistic group - and now, through its modernised revision and proposed re-introduction, it receives cultural influences from Auvergnat and Balianese.

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LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE

 

TYPOLOGY

Neu-Savoiêr is a synthetic language, with slight similarities to Illatian. Most verbs possess different endings for person, number and tenses, making the use of the pronoun optional; thus, two grammatical functions are bound together. However, the second-person singular verb form regularly requires an appropriate pronoun for distinction.

 

The standard word order observed in Neu-Savoiêr is subject-verb-object form in declarative sentences. One example is “Vos côsâds Cammun” [You speak Common], except when the object is a pronoun, in which case the word order is subject-object-verb for an interrogative sentence, such as; “Côsâds-vos Cammun?”.

 

MORPHOLOGY

Neu-Savoiêr has similar morphology to other Auvergnat, Balianite or Illatian dialects;

 

Articles have three forms; definite, indefinite and partitive. Plural definite articles agree in gender with the noun to which they refer, unlike Auvergnat. Partitive articles are used with mass nouns.

 

ARTICLES	MASCULINE DEFINITE	MASCULINE INDEFINITE	FEMININE DEFINITE	FEMININE INDEFINITE
SINGULAR	lo	on	là	na
PLURAL	los	dès / dè	lès	dès / dè

Articles precede women’s given names during conversation. Examples such as;

là Foëse (Françoise)

là Mauriza (Mauricette)

là Mya (Marie)

However, articles will never precede men’s given names;

Dian (Jean)

Ouiss (Louis)

Ouain (Owyn)

 

Nouns are inflected by number and gender. Inflection by grammatical number (singular and plural) is clearly distinguished in feminine nouns, but such is not seen for masculine vows, where pronunciation is generally identical for those words ending with a vowel. To assist comprehension of written words, an “s” is added to most plural nouns that is not reflected in speech. For example;

 

codû (masculine singular)

codûs (masculine plural)

portâ (feminine singular)

portâs (feminine plural)

 

Subject pronouns, as well as direct and indirect object pronouns, all agree in person, number, gender and case. Relative pronouns have one invariable form.

Adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they modify.

Adverbs are invariable, which is to mean, they are not inflected.

Verbs form three grammatical conjugation classes, each of which are further split into two subclasses. Each conjugation is different, formed by isolating the verb stem and adding an ending determined by mood, tense, voice, and number. Verbs are inflected in four moods: indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and conditional; and two impersonal moods: infinitive and participle, which includes verbal adjectives.

 

Verbs in group 1A end in -ar (côsâr; to speak; chentâr; to sing)

Verbs in group 1B end in -ier (mêngiër; to eat)

Verbs in groups 2A & 2B both end in -ir (vënir; to come)

Verbs in group 3A end in -êr (dêvêr; to owe)

Verbs in group 3B end in -re (vêndre; to sell)

 

Auxiliary verbs are; avêr (to have) and étre (to be).

 

NUMERALS

Neu-Savoiêr uses a decimal counting system, and the numbers “1”, “2” and “4” possess both masculine and feminine forms.

 

0 - zêrô

1 - yôn (masc); yêna (fem)

2 - dôs (masc); davè (fem)

3 - três

4 - quâtro (masc); quât (fem)

5 - cênq

6 - siéx

7 - siupt

8 - huêt

9 - nô

10 - diéx

11 - yônz

12 - dônz

13 - trêze

14 - quâtorz

15 - quînz

16 - sièze

17 - diè-siupt

18 - diè-huêt

19 - diè-nô

20 - vângt

21 - vângt-yôn (masc); vângt-en-yêna (fem)

22 - vângt-dôs

30 - trënta

40 - quârenta

50 - cênquenta

60 - siéssanta

70 - siëptanta

80 - huêtanta

90 - nônanta

100 - cênt

1000 - milâ

1000000 - on mil-yôn (masc); on mil-yêna (fem)

 

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COMMON WORDS & SENTENCES

 

GREETINGS

Hello - Bojôrn! (informal); Biên-jôrn! (formal)

Goodbye - An revêir! (informal); Aun reveiêr! (formal)

YES & NO

Yes - Ouè (informal); Vouè (formal)

No - Nân (informal); Nêun (formal)

COMMON WORDS

A man - Un ôme

A woman - Na fèna

Please - Sê vôn plèit

Thank you - Mârci (informal); Ûn grènt-mârci (formal)

Sorry - Dènsolê (informal); Pèrdonâis-mè (formal)

Good - Bôun

Bad - Mêrrit

 

You - Vos

Your - Vòse

Me/I’m - Mên/mènt

My - Mèneit

Mine - Mèneis

FAMILY

Son - Fèille

Daughter - Fèina

Father - Pêire*

Mother - Mêire*

*A prefix of ônc indicates aunt or uncle; a prefix of grên indicates grandparents.

Brother - Frèire

Sister - Soirê

TITLES

Mister - Sêgner

Miss - Fèigne

Baron - Bayrôn

Baroness - Bèyrogne

Viscount - Véscaumte

Viscountess - Vàscaumtein

Count - Caumte

Countess - Caumtein

Duke - Dôuc

Duchess - Doûcein

Prince - Prînc

Princess - Prînzein

Crown Prince - Herêu-Prînc

King - Rêin

Queen - Râin

God - Diêun

 

COMMON SENTENCES

What is your name? - T-îl qè vos èd niôm?

Where are you from? - Ôund qè vos è?

I am happy to see you! - Mènt countânt dè vos veîr!

GOD be with you! - Diêun coîn vos!

How can I help? - Cossêin mên ayûdeir?

Can you help me? - Côss ayûd mên?

 

 

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PURPOSE & CLOSING STATEMENT

 

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Thank you so much for reading and checking out this language, and addition to the Savoyardic culture! I’ve been given another opportunity to play a Savoyard thanks to @KaisaurusRex and @Mykei, and I was saddened to see that there wasn’t any real identity, and I thought it’d be a good beginning to reform this identity via a language! As stated in the IC part of this post, the language draws heavy influence from French, Catalan and Occitan, and a lot of it are direct parallels to Franco-Provençal, a language that was spoken by several provinces of the real life Duchy of Savoie. I hope this draws more and more people to play Savoyards, and this is just the beginning of what I hope can be a slow but sure cultural revival!

 

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😍😍 i love a good lore post… great job nav!!

 

[Jihnyny 5233]

Louis Sébastien de Savoie sword fights with his cousin, @navigat0rrOwyn Hector, practicing for their future ambitions.
"yôn , dôs , três!"

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Oh my god it’s coming back 

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Cursed content, be warned

 

[Lirinya 4021]

Isidora was ready to add the dialect to the second edition of her language book. Thanks, Owyn.

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my great grandfather paul slowly is awakening @bulgaria is white

 

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