Alarian

Alarine
Démfa Alaríne
Pronunciation	[ˈde̞ɱfä äläˈɾine̞]
Created by	Ronnie Lovell
Setting	Alaria
Language family	Indo-European Alarine
Early form	Old Alarine

Alarine(démfa alaríne, Alarine: [ˈde̞ɱfä äläˈɾine̞]) is a constructed language used in the fictional kingdom of Alaria, the setting of an ongoing book series.
It was developed as a semi-serious endeavor to create an Indo-European constructed language, and was retroactively placed in the fictional series as the primary language spoken in Alaria.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants of Alarine

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m		n		ɲ
Plosive	p b		t d			k ɡ
Affricate				t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
Fricative	f v	θ	s z	ʃ ʒ		x
Trill/Tap			r ɾ
Approximant			l		j ʎ	w

The phonemes /d/ and /ɡ/ are pronounced as voiced stops only after a pause, or after a nasal consonant,
in all other contexts, they are realized as voiced fricatives /ð/, /ɣ/

Vowels

The Alarine phonemic inventory consists of the standard five vowel system, and their long counterparts.

Vowels of Alarine

	Front	Center	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	e̞ e̞ː		o̞ o̞ː
Open		ä äː

Stress

Alarine features variable stress, marked with an acute accent on the vowel (á/é/í/ó/ú)

Phonotactics

Alarine features a (C)V(C)(C) syllable structure

Orthography

Alarine Orthography
Alarine:	a	b	c	d	dj	e	f	g	h	i	j	l	lj	m	n	ñ	o	p	q	r	s	sj	t	tj	þ	u	v	w	z	zj
IPA:	ä	b	k	d	d͡ʒ	e̞	f	ɡ	x	i	j	l	ʎ	m	n	ɲ	o̞	p	kʷ	r	s	ʃ	t	t͡ʃ	θ	u	v	w	z	ʒ

Nouns

Nouns are declined for 3 genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and 2 numbers (singular, plural)

Masculine nouns are marked by the singular ending -o and the plural -i

	présto ‘'finger'’ (masc.)
	Singular	Plural
Base	présto	présti
Genitive	préstos	préstis

Feminine nouns are marked by the singular ending -a and the plural -e

	éza ‘'food'’ (fem.)
	Singular	Plural
Base	éza	éze
Genitive	ézas	ézes

Neuter nouns are marked by the singular ending -e and the plural -i, resembling the masculine plural and feminine plural respectively.

	énde ‘'fire'’ (neut.)
	Singular	Plural
Base	énde	éndi
Genitive	éndes	éndis

Humans and animals are declined for their respective gender, and inflecting them for neuter creates a "default" or "non-conforming" state for the noun:

Human

• anéro - man/male
• anéra - woman/female
• anére - person(in general)/non-gender-conforming individual

Animal

• múto - male cat
• múta - female cat
• múte - cat(in general)/feline

Adjectives

Adjectives decline identically to nouns, and feature an optional enclitic derived from the copula to mark the subject of an adjective or interrogative:

Copula (to be)

	Present	Past	Future
1S	éru, 'ru	óram, 'ram	fuáo, 'fu
2S	éres, 'res	óras, 'ras	fués, 'fes
3S	ére, 're	óra, 'ra	fué, 'fe
1P	erémo, 'rmo	eráma, 'rma	fuámo, 'fmo
2P	eréto, 'rto	eráta, 'rta	fuáto, 'fto
3P	éren, 'ren	óran, 'ran	fuén, 'fen

Examples

• tóþi'ru - I am there
• tjúto'res - You are loud
• niódo're - he/she/it is stupid
• séti'rmo - we are quiet
• máto'rto - y'all are together
• sácro'ren - they are sacred

Examples

Adverbs are formed by the neuter ending -e on adjectives:

• créto

Verbs

Verbs inflect for three persons (First, Second, Third) and three tenses (Present, Past, Future)
Currently there are two classes of verbs:

Class 1

The first class takes the pattern CéCe - CóCa

sérpe (present stem serp-, perfect stem sérft-, participle stem serpúd-); first class

	Present	Past	Future
1S	sérpu	sórpam	serpéru
2S	sérpes	sórpas	serpéres
3S	sérpe	sórpa	serpére
1P	serpémo	sorpáma	serperémo
2P	serpéto	sorpáta	serperéto
3P	sérpen	sórpan	serpéren

Class 2

The second class takes the pattern CáCe - CúCa

	Present	Past	Future
1S	evánu	evúnam	evanéru
2S	evánes	evúnas	evanéres
3S	eváne	evúna	evanére
1P	evanémo	evunáma	evadrémo
2P	evanéto	evunáta	evadréto
3P	evánen	evúnan	evanéren