Zarḍenlaṇḍs
Zeelaṇḍs /ˈzeːlaɳʈs/ is a Thedic language spoken in Lõis's Sicily. It is closely related to Thedish.
It is inspired by Dutch and Afrikaans but it has retroflexes, from the following sound changes:
- Old Thedish þ > d and Old Thedish d > ɖ
- Old Thedish ft, cht > ṭṭ
- aṭ "eight" < achta
- Old Thedish hn-, hl- > ṇ-, ḷ-
- ṇauw "narrow" < hnawwъ
- ḷachen "laugh" < hlahhjьnъ
Phonology
As in Standard Dutch, but with the addition of ṭ ḍ ṇ ḷ /ʈ ɖ ɳ ɭ/. /s z/ have allophones [ʂ ʐ] around retroflexes. [ʀ] is preferred for /r/.
Nouns
Like Afrikaans, Zeelaṇḍs uses the invariable definite article die and indefinite article een.
Pluralization normally uses -s or -en, but some plurals use different affixes: die kiṇḍ = the child, die kiṇḍeren 'the children'.
Verbs
dental-retro alternations
Class 1
- lijden, leeḍ, geleḍen = to suffer (minimal pair with leiḍen = to lead)
- strijden, streeḍ, gestreḍen = to fight (by analogy)
- schijnen, scheeṇ, gescheṇen 'shine, seem'
Class 2
- vriezen, vroor, gevroren = to freeze
Class 4a
- biṇḍen, boṇḍ, geboṇḍen = to bind, to tie
Sample text
Alle mensen worden vrij en gelijk in waardigheiḍ en reṭṭen geboren. Zij zijn begiftigḍ meṭ verstaṇḍ en geweten, en behoren zich jegens elkander in een geest van broeḍerschap te geḍragen.