Barakhinei

Barakhinei
Barakhinei
Created by	Mark Rosenfelder
Date	1999(?)
Setting	Almea
Native to	Barakhún, Mútkün, Hroth
Language family	Eastern Central Cad'inor Barakhinei
Dialects	Western(têl rhu) Central(êrrê rhu) Southern(âr rhu)

Barakhinei is a language created by Mark Rosenfelder, the creator of Verdurian and the Zompist.com webpage.

Philogically, Barakhinei is in the same language family as Verdurian, Ismaîn and Sarroc. Verdurians apparently consider the language "harsh and primitive", to which, likewise, the Barakhinei consider Verdurians to be "spineless degenerates".

Phonology

Orthography

Barakhinei uses its own alphabet, that is derived from the Cad'inor alphabet. The modern orthography is adapted from the mountain alphabet that was used during the Dark Ages, when paper and ink fell out of fashion and instead writing was restricted to carving on stone and wood.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Post- alveolar/ palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal		m				n		ɲ
Stop	p	b			t	d			k	ɡ
Trill						r						ʀ
Affricate							t͡ʃ
Fricative	f	v	θ	ð	s	z	ʃ		x				h
Approximant								j
Lateral						l		ʎ

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front		Near-front	Near-back	Back
Close	i	y			u
Near-close			ɪ	ʊ
Close-mid	e	ø			o
Open-mid	ε				ɔ
Open	a				ɑ

Prosody

Stress

In Barakhinei, stress usually falls on the last closed syllable, e.g. ovori, kalen, chamor, anu. Words that dont fit this rule are labeled in the lexicon.

Additional rules

• Epenthetic vowels are not stressed(e.g. chitor, erêsûl)
• Roots ending in -l, -kh, or -th are usually not stressed(êshtôl, dorôth, ezarkh)
• The derivational suffixes -nor, -il, -el, diminutive -ek, and the -dêsht in powers of ten are never stressed(ekunor, iladil, êndel, hedêsht, kêntek)

Morphology

Nouns

Nominal declensions

Barakhinei has retained all three genders of Cad'inor(masculine, feminine, neuter) and four of the cases(nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive; only the ablative has been lost), but the accusative and dative merge in the plural.

Masculine
nominative	singular	eli	lônd	âshta
	plural	eliri	lôndi	âshtâ
accusative	singular	eli	lônd	âsht
	plural	elirî	lôndî	âshtî
dative	plural
	singular	elia	lônda	âshta
genitive	singular	elio	lôndo	âshto
	plural	elirich	lôndich	âshtach