Re: Inuit/Picts and others

>Anyone ever worked on a Jargon or Creole before? For this idea,
>Inuit and Irish or Inuit and Norse? Or maybe Algonquin or Iroquois..
My Miskutsvinnakk Ujimavin ["mIs.kuts.wIn.nVhk u."ji.ma.wIn] (fur-trading-on
its-language) is an attempt to create an SVO trade language which developed
between the 8th & 12th centuries between the Cree of Vineland and the 60
Norsemen left there after Freydis Eriskstottir's unsuccessful attempt to
have all of the brothers Helgi & Finnbogi's party murdered by her husband
Thorvard.

The language is largely a simplification of Cree with simplified Old Norse
syntax and a few borrowing from Old Norse. E.G.:
1. Object markers were dropped except for inanimate nouns & pronouns: /im/
was retained in the pronoun /jim/ after a verb ending in a vowel or /im/
otherwise.
2. The prefix /im-/ is an enclitic for inanimate nouns when in the object
case. Due to the prominent usage of the locative in Cree, it was retained as
the suffix /-(a)kk/.
3. Syntax for possessives is <possessor> u(t)<possession>(a)n.
E.g. Jon utakuppan [jQn Ut."a.kUh.pVn]= John's coat

The vowels are
a - [a] in an open syllable, [V] when terminal or in a closed syllable
o -  [o] in an open syllable, [Q] when terminal or in a closed syllable
e - [e] in an open syllable, [E] when in a closed syllable
i - [i] in an open syllable, [I] when in a closed syllable
u - [u] in an open syllable, [U] when in a closed syllable
av - [QU]

Consonants
h - [h]
j - [j]
k - [k]
l - [l]
m - [m]
n - [n]
p - [p]
r - [r\]
s - [s]
t - [t]
v - [w]

Digraph consonants
jj -  [h.j]
kk - [h.k]
kv - [k_w]
mm - [m.m]
nn - [n.n]
pp - [h.p]
pv - [p_w]
sk -  [s.k]
ss - [h.s]
st - [s.t]
tj - [t_j]
ts - [ts]
tt - [h.t]
tv -[t_w]
/vv/ [h.w]

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