Bearlandic

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Background

Bearlandic is one of many languages of the planet which is called Virrolt in Bearlandic. The language belongs to the Berilonian language family, which in its turn is a branch of the Iropo-Antilonian language family.



Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labio-dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p b t d k kw
Fricative f v s z (ʃ) (ç) x ~ ɣ h
Approximant ʋ j
Trill r
Lateral app. l

In specific circumstances, some dialects use /ʃ/ and /ç/ instead of /s/ and /x, ɣ/.

Vowels

Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Close i y u
Near-close ɪ ʏ
Close-mid e o
Mid ə
Open-mid ɛ œ ɔ
Near-open
Open a ɑ

Phonotactics

Orthography

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns don't have cases or genders, only numbers. The plural is usually made by adding -s to the end of the word. If it already ends in -s, -enn is added instead. However, a few nouns don't follow these rules and add -er instead, or don't change at all.

Adjectives

The comparative is formed by adding -err to the end of the adjective, while the superlative ends in -iss. If the adjective ends in a vowel, a -t- is inserted between the stem and the ending.

Verbs

Regular verbs

"walk" "shoot"
Present lop sgit
Past lop-ti sgit-i
Perfect gi-lop-t gi-sgit
Byform lop-ē sgit-ē
Present participle lop-nē sgit-nē
Past participle gi-lop-t-nē gi-sgit-nē

Unfortunately, I don't know how the byform is called in English.

Irregular verbs

"be" "have" "eat"
Present iss heppt et
Past wast haptē ati
Perfect giassit gihapt giote
Byform zyt, zyti hypē ytē
Present participle zytnē hepptnē etnē
Past participle - hassnē giotnē

Pronouns

Number Person Subject Object/Reflexive Possessive
Singular 1st ig mi miess
2nd ji ji jiess
3rd masculine hi emm, zigg hiess
3rd feminine zy, zigg zess
3rd neuter dē, zigg dess
Plural 1st wi oss oss
2nd jis jis jisiss
3rd zess hunn, zy hʉn

Syntax

Bearlandic normally has a SVO word order, but questions have a VSO order.

Sample

Dē fillgikentnē mann hermakti miess aut enn itig mojj bot nat dē pabrúr oss a stoppig mys dē oss pegging oss a aut zworrt zwart gisgat haptē.

The well-known man repaired my old and quite beautiful boat after a stupid girl's uncle by accident had damaged it with an old black sword.