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===Nouns===
===Nouns===
 
Predicate nouns are marked with ''da'' after it.
Nouns have the following cases:
===Verbs===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! ''Spahr'' 'horse' !! Singular !! Plural
|-
| Nominative || Spahr || Spahrlich
|-
| Topic || Spahr'''en''' || Spahrlichen
|-
| Accusative || Spahr'''e''' || Spahrliche
|-
| Genitive || Spahr'''el''' || Spahrlichel
|-
| Locative || Spahr'''s''' || Spahrliches
|-
| Ablative || Spahr'''ung''' || Spahrlichung
|-
| Comitative || Spahr'''st''' || Spahrlichst
|}
 
The locative ending -s becomes -es after sibilants. The same case endings can be add to nouns ending in -e in the nominative, except that -ee- and -eu- changes to -e- and -u- respectively, and the syllable before the -e umlauts.


===Pronouns===
===Pronouns===

Revision as of 02:41, 28 February 2017

Not to be confused with Schnüher.


Introduction

Inspired by German and Turkish.


Phonology

Lifted from Standard German.

Orthography

Consonants

Lifted from Standard German.

Vowels

Lifted from Standard German.

Prosody

Lifted from Standard German.

Stress

Lifted from Standard German.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Lifted from Standard German.

Morphophonology

Lifted from Standard German.

Morphology

Nouns

Predicate nouns are marked with da after it.

Verbs

Pronouns

Person Singular Plural
1 brund bründin
2 zied ziedin
3 (proximate) teck tecklich
3 (obviative) zick zicklich

Pronouns inflect just like nouns, and there are no irregular forms.

Accusative clitics

There are clitic prefixes for these pronouns in the accusative:

Person Singular Plural
1 be- ben-
2 zu- zer-
3 (obviative) ge- ger-

Possessive affixes

Person Singular Plural
1 -au -abe
2 -em -ebe
3 (obviative) -el -etz

Only -el triggers umlaut of the preceding syllable.

Predicative affixes

Person Singular Plural
1 -oll -eule
2 -eid -eibe
3 (obviative) -end, -Ø -endlich, -lich



Syntax

Schwünter is completely head-final.

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Numerals

Example texts

Other resources