Sudyrnish

Sudyrnish
Súdyrnish
Pronunciation	[ˈsaudy˞niʃ]
Created by	Dillon Hartwig
Date	2021
Setting	Cornwall, England
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Anglic Sudyrnish
Early form	Old English

Sudyrnish /ˈsʌdərnɪʃ/ (Sudyrnish: Súdyrnish [ˈsaudy˞niʃ]) is an Anglic language spoken in Cornwall.

Etymology

Sudyrnish is from Súdyrnish, from Old English sūþhyrnisċ "south-cornerish" referring to Cornwall (Cornwēalas/Corn(wēal)isċ already referring to the Celtic inhabitants of Cornwall).

Orthography

Sudyrnish is written with the Latin script.

A a	Ar ar	Ai ai	Au au	Ay ay	Á á	Æ æ	Ær ær	Ǽ ǽ	B b	C c
/a/	/a˞/	/ai/	/au/	/ay/	/oː/	/ɛ/	/ɛ˞/	/eː/	/b/	/k/
Ch ch	D d	E e	Ei ei	Er er	Eu eu	Ey ey	É é	Ér ér	È è	Ê ê
/t͡ʃ/	/d/	/e,ə/	/əi/	/ɚ/	/əu/	/əy/	/iː/	/i˞ː/	/ə/	/œː/
F f	G g	Gh gh	Gu gu	H h	I i	Ir ir	Í í	Ír ír	Ï ï	Ïr ïr
/f/	/g/	/d͡ʒ/	/gw/	/h/	/i/	/i˞/	/ai/	/ai˞/	/i/	/i˞/
L l	M m	N n	O o	Ó ó	Ór ór	Œ œ	Œ́ œ́	Œ́r œ́r	P p	Qu qu
/l,lˠ/	/m/	/n,nˠ/	/o/	/uː/	/u˞ː/	/ø/	/yː/	/y˞ː/	/p/	/kw/
R r	S s	Sh sh	T t	U u	Ur ur	Ú ú	Úr úr	Ü ü	Ür ür	W w
/ɾ,ɾˠ/	/s/	/ʃ/	/t/	/u/	/u˞/	/au/	/au˞/	/u/	/u˞/	/w/
Wl wl	Wn wn	Wr wr	X x	Y y	Yr yr	Ý ý	Ýr ýr	Ÿ ÿ	Ÿr ÿr
/lˠ/	/nˠ/	/ɾˠ/	/ks/	/y/	/y˞/	/ay/	/ay˞/	/y/	/y˞/

• /V˞V/ sequences are separated by apostrophes.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Postalveolar		Velar
Nasal	m		n nˠ
Stop	p	b	t	d	t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ	k	g
Fricative	f		s		ʃ		h
Approximant	w		l lˠ		j
Tap			ɾ ɾˠ

• Fricatives except /h/ are voiced intervocalically and adjacent to voiced stops.
• /m/ is realized as [ɱ] before /f/.
• /n,l/ are velarized in coda.
  • /n/ is realized as [ŋ] before velar consonants.

Vowels

Vowels

	Front unrounded	Front rounded	Back
High	i iː i˞ i˞ː	y yː y˞ y˞ː	u uː u˞ u˞ː
Close-mid	e eː	ø	o oː
Open-mid	ɛ ɛ˞	œː	ə ɚ
Low	a a˞

Diphthongs

əi	əy	əu
ai	ay	au

• /ə/ is realized as [œ] when stressed.

Prosody

Stress is variable but predominantly initial

Phonotactics

Sudyrnish maximal syllables are CCCVCCC

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns are marked for number by a suffix -(e)s, umlaut, or more rarely by suppletion.

"hat"	"bear"	"oak"	"dog"
Singular	hæt	bére	ác	hund
Plural	hætes	béres	ǽc	doges Pronouns Verbs Adjectives Negation Numerals Syntax Constituent order Sudyrnish word order is strictly either V2 or SVO, V2 being more common in poetic and formal speech. Noun and verb phrases Possessors and numerals precede their head. Adjectives and adverbs follow their head. Dependent clauses Dependent clauses directly follow their head. Example texts Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1 Linguifex-hosted translations Translated works in Sudyrnish Sudyrnish/Test Case Sentences Sudyrnish/Corpus Conlang Atlas of Language Structures-hosted translations CALS translations Other resources CALS