Zarḍenlaṇḍs

Zarḍenlaṇḍs /ˈzaʀɖəlaɳʈs/ (name to be changed; Thedish: Sardenlandьsk) is an Ingvaeonic language spoken in Lõis's Sardinia and Corsica. It's from a separate branch from English and Frisian.

It's a member of the Sardinian sprachbund along with Thedish, Sardinian and Kyravar Mazhi, and has a dental-retroflex distinction. The main source of retroflexion in Zardenlands is from a consonant shift where Proto-Ingvaeonic þ d became d ḍ.

Phonology

As in Standard Dutch, but with the addition of ṭ ḍ ṇ ḷ /ʈ ɖ ɳ ɭ/. /s z/ have allophones [ʂ ʐ] around retroflexes. [ʀ] is preferred for /r/.

Nouns

Zardenlands has two grammatical genders like Dutch and Swedish: common and neuter.

Verbs

dental-retro alternations

Class 1

• lijden, leeḍ, geleḍen = to suffer (minimal pair with leiḍen = to lead)
• strijden, streeḍ, gestreḍen = to fight (by analogy)
• schijnen, scheeṇ, gescheṇen 'shine, seem'

Class 2

• vriezen, vroor, gevroren = to freeze

Class 4a

• biṇḍen, boṇḍ, geboṇḍen = to bind, to tie

Sample text

Alle mensen worden vrij en gelijk in waardigheiḍ en reṭṭen geboren. Zij zijn begiftigḍ meṭ verstaṇḍ en geweten, en behoren zich jegens elkander in een geest van broeḍerschap te geḍragen.