Gollic

Gollic
feuis jaulic
Pronunciation	[fɥi ʒɔˈli]
Created by	Nehster9
Date	2024
Setting	Gollia
Ethnicity	Golls
Native speakers	49.4 million (2100)
Language family	Trihimic Gollic languages Gollic
Early forms	Proto-Trihimic Middle Gollic
Dialect	Caucian Gollic
Official status
Official language in	Gollia, Lée Castiyée

Gollic (endonym: feuis jaulic [fɥi ʒɔˈli]​) is an a priori and naturalistic language spoken in Gollia. It is a member of the Trihimic languages, descended from Proto-Trihimic. Gollic is inspired aesthetically by French.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal /Postalveolar	Velar	Uvular
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
	voiced	b	d		g
Fricative	voiceless	f	s	ʃ		ʁ
	voiced	v	z	ʒ
Approximant	plain				j
	labial			ɥ	w
	lateral		l

Vowels

Oral vowels

	Front		Central	Back
	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i	y		u
Close-mid	e	ø	ə	o
Open-mid	ε			ɔ
Open	a			ɑ

Nasal vowels

	Front	Back
Open-mid	ɛ̃	ɔ̃
Open		ɑ̃

Stress

Lexical stress in Gollic typically falls on the penultimate or final syllable of a word. Certain rules that fix stress on one of the two are as follows:

• A syllable with <é> is generally stressed
• All verbs have final stress in all forms

Orthography

Modern Gollic spelling largely represents Gollic as it was pronounced in the 13th century. As a result, final <e> and unpronounced consonants are often preserved in writing.

Letter	Name	Diacritics and ligatures
Aa	a [ˈa]	Ââ
Bb	be [ˈbə]
Cc	ce [ˈsə]	Çç
Dd	de [ˈdə]
Ee	e [ˈε]	Éé, Êê
Ff	ef [ˈfə]
Gg	ge [ˈʒə]
Hh	he [ˈə]
Ii	i [ˈi]	Îî
Jj	je [ˈʒə]
Ll	el [ˈlə]
Nn	en [ˈnə]
Mm	em [ˈmə]
Oo	o [ˈo]	Ôô, Œœ
Pp	pe [ˈpə]	=
Qq	que [ˈkə]
Rr	er [ˈʁə]
Ss	es [ˈsə]
Tt	te [ˈtə]
Uu	u [ˈy]	Ûû
Vv	ve [ˈvə]
Yy	y [ˈi]
Zz	ze [ˈzə]

Grammar

Nouns

Gollic nouns can be masculine or feminine. The gender of nouns is generally not predictable based on form, and instead is indicated with article and (sometimes) adjective agreement. For nouns regarding the living, their grammatical gender generally corresponds to the referent. For example, a male teacher is le lous, while a female teacher is lée lous.

Plurals are typically marked with a final -e (i.e. lous > louse). Generally, the only difference in pronunciation will be that the last consonant in the plural is pronounced (singular /lu/ vs plural /lus/). If the noun already ends in -e in the singular, then it instead becomes -ée (for example, paste > pastée). In this case, the last consonant is pronounced invariably, and in the plural, the <é> is pronounced (singular /past/ vs plural /pasˈte/).

Verbs

Most verbs in Gollic have both finite and non-finite forms. The finite moods are indicative, subjunctive, and imperative. The non-finite forms are the infinitive and participles.

In a number of verbs, such as pesaine, the stem vowel shifts in certain forms. Only a few forms may take this vowel change, and it is usually applied across all such forms within all verbs with stem vowel changes (for example, poisé instead of *pesé)

Indicative mood

The indicative mood is used to denote a factual statement. Four tenses are used in the indicative: present, imperfect, past, and future.

Indicative forms of the regular verb pesaine ('to eat')

	Singular			Plural
	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
	vie	tife	vois/liv/ceu	vié	tifée	voise
Present	poisé	poisét	poisuis	pesié	pesée	pesuise
Imperfect	pesois	pesis	poisent	pesoise	pesise	pesente
Past	poisir	poisind	poisit	pesire	pesind	pesié
Future	pesan	pesand	pesant	pesance	pesandé	pesante

Subjunctive mood

The subjunctive mood is used to denote a hypothetical statement. Only two tenses are used in the subjunctive: present and imperfect.

Subjunctive forms of the regular verb pesaine ('to eat')

	Singular			Plural
	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
	vie	tife	vois/liv/ceu	vié	tifée	voise
Present	poisuit	poisans	poisoix	pesue	pesanse	pesoie
Imperfect	peset	poisou	pêt	pesue	pesue	pese

Imperative mood

The imperative mood is used to denote a command. The imperative does not take tense, and is only used with you, we, and plural you.

Imperative forms of the regular verb pesaine ('to eat')

	Singular			Plural
	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
	—	tife	—	vié	tifée	—
Affirmative	—	pois	—	pesue	pesse	—
Negative	—	ne pois	—	ne pesue	ne pesse	—

Dialects

Gollic is split into two major dialects: Rhodesian Gollic, spoken in Gollia, and Caucian Gollic, spoken in Cauce.

Caucian Gollic

Caucian Gollic is spoken in two countries on the continent of Cauce: Lée Castiyée, and Bordune. It exhibits several features that distinguish it from Rhodesian Gollic:

• Non-rhoticity: Caucian Gollic is generally non-rhotic. The rhotic consonant /ʁ/, normally pronounced after vowels, is instead dropped, and the preceding vowel lengthened. For example, while the word viér is pronounced [vjeʁ] in Rhodesian Gollic, it is pronounced [vjeː] in Caucian Gollic.
  • When before vowels, /ʁ/ becomes [h]. When after a plosive, it aspirates the preceding sound. For example, êtreud is pronounced [εˈtʁø] in Rhodesian but [εˈtʰø] in Caucian.
  • /ʁ/ is preserved after non-stops, and as the coda after another consonant. For example, cœudre is pronounced [sødʁ] in both Rhodesian and Caucian.
• De-nasalization: Caucian Gollic restored historical nasal consonants after vowels in spoken speech. Some speakers furthermore denasalize the preceding vowel. For example, chiend is pronounced [ʃjɑ̃] in Rhodesian Gollic but [ʃjɑ̃n ~ ʃjɑn] in Caucian.
• Collapse of [ɥ]: Sequences involving [ɥV] are collapsed into [Vː] in Caucian Gollic. For example, feuis is pronounced [fɥi] in Rhodesian Gollic and [fiː] in Caucian.