Arnic

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Arnic
Arakite
iguro Arnah
Pronunciation[igʲʏro aɾn̯ɐh]
Created byJukethatbox
Date2022-2024
SettingRadael
Native toArnah, Northern Gibidum
Yeldhic
Early forms
Proto-Yeldhic
Dialects
  • Central Inarduizan
  • Ya-Ranah
  • Kodi Chir
Official status
Official language in
Arnah
Recognised minority
language in
Moshurian Empire
Regulated byArnah Bureau of Linguistics(ABL)
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Arnic(iguro Arnah, Arnic: [igʲʏro aɾn̯ɐh]), also called Arakite, is a Gadaïc language and the official language of the Moshurian vassal of Arnah. It is one of six majority languages in Gadah, and is the second most spoken there after Ösrish.

Arnic is a Proto-Gadaïc-derivative, meaning it primarily derives from the Paleogadaic derivative, Proto-Gadaïc. This differs from Psér, which is a direct derivative from Paleogadaic.

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Post-alveolar Velar Palatal Uvular Glottal
Plosive p b t d k g q[1]
Nasal m (ɱ) n ŋ ɲ ɴ[2]
Tap or flap/Trill ɾ/r
Fricative f v s z ʃ ʒ x ɣ[3] ç ʁ h
(Lateral) Approximant w l ɫ

Palatalisation & labialisation

When a plosive is followed by a front close or near-front near-close vowel, the plosive palatalises, as so:

/g/ + /i/ → [gʲi]

When a plosive is followed by a back vowel like /u/, the plosive instead labialises instead, as so:

/g/ + /u/ → [gʷu]

Vowels

Front Near-front Back
Close i u
Near-close (ɪ) ʏ
Close-mid e ø o
Open a (œ)

Prosody

Stress

Arnic, unlike other Gadaïc languages, does not have a strict stress order across all words, though some groups of words have certain stress pattern. For example, many words from Psér preserve their original stress pattern, that being prototonic stress, such as keri, from Psér kri, "self".

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns

Arnic nouns are inflected by number, animacy and case.

Cases

Cases in Arnic are already inflected, but are further inflected to denote animacy.

Nominative Accusative Dative Instrumentative
Inanimate - -arin -akach -egom
Animate -elin -ikai -akam

Animacy

All nouns are categorised by animacy: either animate or inanimate. Case markings for nouns and pronouns change based on the animacy of a noun. As an example, take the noun meshal("man"). Meshal is animate, so the surrounding case markings change as so:

Yach meshal damochelin madai.
DEM.APUD.SG.ANIM man-NOM food-ANIM-ACC eat-PRES.
This man eats food.

If sadach("plant"), an inanimate noun(though one could argue plants are alive) were used, the noun case would be as so:

Reh sadach damocharin madai.
DEM.APUD.SG.INAN man-NOM food-INAN-ACC eat-PRES.
This plant eats food.

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources

  1. ^ Variation of /k/ found in some Western dialects.
  2. ^ Variation of /ŋ/ in final position found in some Yav-Yanach dialects.
  3. ^ Eastern pronunciation of /x/.