Alvinian

Alvinian
Алвини Език, Alvini Ezik
Created by	AlbertVen
Language family	Indo-European Slavic Southern Slavic Alvinian

Introduction

Alvinian (Алвини Език, Alvini Ezik) is a Southern Slavic language based on Old Slovene, which has been significantly influenced by Venetan, an Italo-Romance language spoken in North-Eastern Italy, and other Slavic languages, especially Serbian and Russian.

Alphabet

Alvinian uses both Cyrillic and Latin script. The alphabets have an equal status, although latin is usually preferred in informal texts, while cyrillic is normally used in normative, scientific and official texts.

Cyrillic	Latin	IPA value
А а	A a	/a/
Б б	B b	/b/
В в	V v	/v/
Г г	G g	/ɡ/
Д д	D d	/d/
Џ џ	Đ đ	/dʑ/
Е е	E e	/ɛ/ /e/
Ж ж	Ž ž	/ʐ/
З з	Z z	/z/
И и	I i	/i/
Ј ј	J j	/ʝ/
К к	K k	/k/
Л л	L l	/l/
М м	M m	/m/
Н н	N n	/n/
О о	O o	/ɔ/ /о/
П п	P p	/p/
Р р	R r	/ɾ/
С с	S s	/s/
Т т	T t	/t/
У у	U u	/u/
Ф ф	F f	/f/
Х х	H h	/x/
Ц ц	C c	/ts/
Ч ч	Č č	/tɕ/
Ш ш	Š š	/ʂ/
Я я	Ą ą	/ɔ̃/

Grammar

Nouns

Alvinian inflects nouns for number (singular, dual, plural), gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and case (nominative, genitive, accusative, dative). The declensions are divided into masculine, feminine and neuter.

Masculine - Ušnik (Student)	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Ušnik	Ušnika	Ušniki
Genitive	Ušnika	Ušnika	Ušnikov
Accusative	Ušnik	Ušnika	Ušnike
Dative	Ušniku	Ušnikam	Ušnikima

Feminine - Niga (Book)	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Niga	Nigi	Nige
Genitive	Nige	Nigi	Nig
Accusative	Nigu	Nigi	Nige
Dative	Nigi	Nigam	Nigima

Neuter - Revo (Tree)	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Revo	Revi	Revą
Genitive	Reva	Revi	Rev
Accusative	Revo	Revi	Revą
Dative	Revu	Revam	Revima

Personal Pronouns

Alvinian personal pronouns are inflected for number (singular, dual, plural), person, case (nominative, genitive, accusative, dative) and the 3rd persons are inflected also for gender (masculine/neuter, feminine).

	1S	2S	3S m,n	3S f	1D	2D	3D	1P	2P	3P m, f, n
Nom	Mi	Ti	El, Elo	Ela	Naj	Vaj	Laj	Ni	Vi	Eli, Ele, Elą
Gen	Meg	Teg	Neg	Ne	Nas	Vas	Las	Nih	Vih	Lih
Acc	Men	Ten	Nen	Nu	Nas	Vas	Las	Nih	Vih	Lih
Dat	Mom	Tom	Nem	Nom	Nama	Vama	Lima	Nam	Vam	Lim

Verbs

Subject Clitics

Alvinian doesn't have any agreement morphology realised on the verb, that's why it developed a second serie of subject pronouns, which are clitic elements derived from full personal pronouns. These elements function only as markers of the agreement with the subject, and they are obligatorily realised in a sentence with a verb. Subject Clitics are normally proclitic in declarative sentences (they come before the verb) and enclitic in interrogative sentences (they follow the verb). Subject Clitics are not inflected for case, since they always encode the relation of agreement with the subject, but they inflect for person, number (singular, dual, plural) and the 3rd persons are also inflected for gender (masculine, feminine, neuter).

1S	2S	3Sm	3Sf	3Sn	1D	2D	3D	1P	2P	3Pm	3Pf	3Pn
Me	Te	El	La	Lo	Na	Va	La	Ne	Ve	Li	Le	Lą

In a sentence with a full pronominal subject or with a referential nominal subject, Subject Clitic has to be realised as well.

	Subject Clitic + Verb	Full Pronoun + Subject Clitic + Verb	Referential Noun + Subject Clitic + Verb
Declarative	La že	Ela la že	Lara la že
Translation	She is	She she is	Lara she is

In questions the order is inverted: the verb comes before the Subject Clitics and they are written as a single word.

Declarative	Interrogative	Translation
La že	Žela?	She is. --> Is she?

Syntax