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L-Norwegian is a Finnic language spoken in User:IlL/Lõis's Norway.


Introduction

Phonology

All letters are pronounced as in Finnish except d which is pronounced /ð/, ë pronounced /ə/, ü pronounced /y/ and ie, uo, üö pronounced /iə, uə, yə/.

Stress is always on the first syllable.

Vowel harmony

a, o, u are back; ä, ö, ü, e are front; ë, i are neutral.

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

L-Norwegian has 14 cases. Nouns have five stems, the nominative, genitive, partitive, dative and partitive plural.

Singular Plural
Nominative [NOM] [GEN]-t
Genitive [GEN]-n [PARTPL]-ën
Partitive [PART] [PARTPL]-a/ä
Illative [GEN]-ssën, [DAT]-n [PARTPL]-hën
Inessive [GEN]-ssa/-ssä [PARTPL]-ssa/ssä
Elative [GEN]-sta/-stä [PARTPL]-sta/stä
Allative [GEN]-llë [PARTPL]-llë
Adessive [GEN]-lla/-llä [PARTPL]-lla/llä
Ablative [GEN]-lta/-ltä [PARTPL]-lta/ltä
Translative [GEN]-ksi [PARTPL]-ksi
Essive [GEN]-na/-nä [PARTPL]-na/-nä
Abessive [GEN]-hta/-htä [PARTPL]-hta/-htä
Comitative [GEN]-në [PARTPL]-në
Instructive [GEN]-n [PARTPL]-n

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources