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Vowel inventory | Vowel inventory | ||
Standard Rennic has seven vowels, a æ ɪ i e o and y. | Standard Rennic has seven vowels, a æ ɪ i e o and y. a and i can be long or short. Some dialects, especially in Khandrahar and Finwar, use only a i o and y. | ||
Consonant inventory | Consonant inventory | ||
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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
/a/ and /æ/ are both written as the same letter, a. However, /æ/ will often cause the next letter to double, such as in the words kalloch [kælox], sheep, to distinguish it from galoh [galoh], a kind of shoe. /i/ and /o/ are written i and o. /ɪ/ is written as y. /y/ is written as u. /e/ is written as | /a/ and /æ/ are both written as the same letter, a. However, /æ/ will often cause the next letter to double, such as in the words kalloch [kælox], sheep, to distinguish it from galoh [galoh], a kind of shoe. /i/ and /o/ are written i and o. /ɪ/ is written as y. /y/ is written as u. /e/ is written as e. | ||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
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Nouns | Nouns | ||
Nouns in Old Rennic declined by case and number. Plurals are made by taking the root of the noun, and adding u. So the word 'megath' [megaf], meaning rag or cloth, has the root meg-, and therefore the plural 'megu'. Nouns are also lenited in the plural if they come after a vowel, so the word 'fo kladda', the basin, would have the plural 'fo gladdu', the basins. There are five cases in Rennic: nominative, accusative, dative, and two forms of genitive case. In Old Rennic, the cases were more different; in modern Rennic it is often difficult to differentiate between cases in the singular form and prepositions are used. | |||
Singular Plural | |||
Nominative fo kaldo fo galdu | |||
Accusative ro kaldo ro galdi | |||
Dative an fo kalda an fo galda | |||
Genitive dwe kaldo dwi galdi | |||
Possessive fo kaldran fo galdran | |||
Adjectives | Adjectives | ||
Verbs | Verbs | ||