Arnic

Arnic
Arakite
iguro Arnah
Pronunciation	[igʲʏro aɾn̯ɐh]
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2022-2024
Setting	Radael
Native to	Arnah, Northern Gibidum
Language family	Yeldhic Gadaïc West Gadaïc Arnic
Early forms	Proto-Yeldhic Paleogadaic Proto-Gadaïc Proto-Arnic
Dialects	Central Inarduizan Ya-Ranah Kodi Chir
Official status
Official language in	Arnah
Recognised minority language in	Moshurian Empire
Regulated by	Arnah Bureau of Linguistics(ABL)

Arnic(iguro Arnah, Arnic: [igʲʏro aɾn̯ɐh]), also called Arakite, is a Gadaïc language and the official language of the Moshurian vassal of Arnah. It is one of six majority languages in Gadah, and is the second most spoken there after Ösrish.

Arnic is a Proto-Gadaïc-derivative, meaning it primarily derives from the Paleogadaic derivative, Proto-Gadaïc. This differs from Psér, which is a direct derivative from Paleogadaic.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Velar	Palatal	Uvular	Glottal
Plosive	p b		t d		k g		q
Nasal	m	(ɱ)	n		ŋ	ɲ	ɴ
Tap or flap/Trill			ɾ/r
Fricative		f v	s z	ʃ ʒ	x ɣ	ç	ʁ	h
(Lateral) Approximant	w		l		ɫ

Palatalisation & labialisation

When a plosive is followed by a front close or near-front near-close vowel, the plosive palatalises, as so:

/g/ + /i/ → [gʲi]

When a plosive is followed by a back vowel like /u/, the plosive instead labialises instead, as so:

/g/ + /u/ → [gʷu]

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Back
Close	i		u
Near-close		(ɪ) ʏ
Close-mid	e ø		o
Open	a (œ)

Prosody

Stress

Arnic, unlike other Gadaïc languages, does not have a strict stress order across all words, though some groups of words have certain stress pattern. For example, many words from Psér preserve their original stress pattern, that being prototonic stress, such as keri, from Psér kri, "self".

Morphology

Nouns

Arnic nouns are inflected by number, animacy and case.

Number

Nouns are inflected by whether they are singular, dual or plural. Singular nouns are inflected by nothing(-∅), while dual nouns are inflected by a -wesh, and plural nouns are inflected by an -arn. The dual noun suffix is also used as an equivalent of the English particle "both".

Cases

Cases in Arnic are already inflected, but are further inflected to denote animacy.

	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Instrumentative
Inanimate	-	-arin	-akach	-egom
Animate		-elin	-ikai	-akam

Animacy

All nouns are categorised by animacy: either animate or inanimate. Case markings for nouns and pronouns change based on the animacy of a noun. As an example, take the noun meshal("man"). Meshal is animate, so the surrounding case markings change as so:

Yach meshal damochelin madai.

DEM.APUD.SG.ANIM man-NOM food-ANIM-ACC eat-PRES.

This man eats food.

If sadach("plant"), an inanimate noun(though one could argue plants are alive) were used, the noun case would be as so:

Reh sadach damocharin madai.

DEM.APUD.SG.INAN man-NOM food-INAN-ACC eat-PRES.

This plant eats food.