Zarḍenlaṇḍs
Zarḍenlaṇḍs /ˈzaʀɖəlaɳʈs/ (name to be changed; Thedish: Sardenlandьsk) is an Ingvaeonic language spoken in Lõis's Sardinia and Corsica. It's from a separate branch from English and Frisian.
It's a member of the Sardinian sprachbund along with Thedish, Sardinian and Kyravar Mazhi, and has a dental-retroflex distinction. The main source of retroflexion in Zardenlands is from a consonant shift where Proto-Ingvaeonic þ d became d ḍ.
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
Zardenlands has two grammatical genders like Dutch and Swedish: common and neuter.
Adjectives
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.